Studio portrait of George Frederick Hutton Potts

Studio portrait of George Frederick Hutton Potts

Identifier

Po01-082

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Po01-082. George Frederick Cumming Hutton Potts (1864-1937) was a successful business man in Shanghai and Hong Kong.  He was born in Bedale, Yorkshire, England on 16 April 1864 and died in Shantou, Guangdong, China on 4 January 1937. George Hutton Potts was a stock broker and one of the founders of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, later becoming the Chairman. He played many sports, owned race horses and volunteered in the Shanghai Mounted Scouts and Hong Kong Volunteer Maxim-Gun Corps.

Estimated Date

1885

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph