POTTS

Alexander William . b. 1834; educ. Shrews bury, captain of the football and stroke of the boat; at St. John’s coll. Camb., second cla ic, second chancellor’s medallist and B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861, LL.D.; fellow of his college 1858; a master at the Charter house 1858; an a istant master Rugby 1862–8; the first head master of Fettes college, Edinburgh July 1868 to death, the college prospered under his management; author of Hints towards Latin prose composition 1869, 2 ed. 1870; Pa ages for translation into Latin prose 1879; with C. Darnell Aditus faciliores, a Latin construing book 1875; Aditus faciliores Græci 1878; and with W. A. Heard Camenarum Flosculos 1877, 3 ed. 1886. d. The lodge, Fettes college 15 Nov. 1889. bur. Dean cemetery 19 Nov. The Scotsman 18 Nov. 1889 p. 7, 20 Nov. p. 6; School sermons by A. W. Potts (1891), memoir pp. xi–xl portrait .