George Richard Potter

George Richard Potter (1900 – 1981) was a British historian. From 1931 until 1965 he was Professor of Modern/Medieval History at the University of Sheffield.^[1] He also edited the first volume of The New Cambridge Modern History.^[2]

Professor Potter received an appointment as Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II during the 1977 Silver Jubilee and Birthday Honours.

Works

• Sir Thomas More (1478-1538) (London: Parsons, 1925).
• Macaulay (London: Longmans, 1959).
• "Switzerland, History of" in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed., Macropædia (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1974).
• Zwingli (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976).
• Ulrich Zwingli (Historical Association, 1977).
• (with Mark Greengrass), John Calvin (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1983).