Joseph Hyde Potts (1793 – 1865) was an accountant and in 1817 was the first employee to be engaged by the

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(now

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). On 9 August 1834 he married Emma Bates (d.1901). The marriage was conducted by the Rev. William Cowper at fashionable St. Phillip's Church. They had four children: Joseph (b. 1835), Harriet (b. 1837), Francis (b. 1839) and Josephine (b. 1843). In 1830 Potts acquired of land from Judge-Advocate John Wylde on what was previously known as Paddys Point and Woolloomooloo Hill and renamed it

Potts Point Potts Point is a small and densely populated suburb in inner-city Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Potts Point is located east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Local government in Australia, local government area o ...

. Potts purchased another in 1834, in 1835 and a further in 1835. Potts Hill reservoir and

are located on a large portion of Joseph Hyde Potts' original land. In 1841 the Crown granted a further to Potts, who was at that time Secretary of the Bank of New South Wales, near where

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and

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's Mount Royal College campus is located at

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is today.

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Paddy's Point or Woolloomooloo Hill
{{DEFAULTSORT:Potts, Joseph Hyde 1793 births 1865 deaths Settlers of Australia Australian bankers 19th-century Australian businesspeople