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 The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public university, public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Fir ...

. He also edited the first volume of ''

The New Cambridge Modern History ''The New Cambridge Modern History'' replaced the original '' Cambridge Modern History'' in an entirely new project with all new editors and contributors. It was published by Cambridge University Press in fourteen volumes between the 1950s and th ...

''.The New Cambridge Modern History
University of Cambridge website, retrieved 8 July 2018.

Works

*
Sir Thomas More (1478-1538)
' (London: Parsons, 1925). *''Macaulay'' (London: Longmans, 1959). *''Ulrich Zwingli'' (Historical Association, 1977). *(with Mark Greengrass), ''John Calvin'' (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1983).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Potter, George Richard 1900 births 1981 deaths 20th-century English historians Academics of the University of Sheffield