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Thomas Potts

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Thomas Henry Potts (23 December 1824 – 27 July 1888) was a British-born New Zealand naturalist, ornithologist, entomologist, and botanist.

Biography

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The son of a small arms manufacturer, he emigrated to New Zealand in 1854, and recorded many natural observations as well as species that were then new to science, such as the black-billed gull and the great spotted kiwi.

In {{By-election link year|Mount Herbert|1866}} he was elected to the Mount Herbert electorate after William Sefton Moorhouse who had won the seat in the 1866 general election declined the seat. Potts retired from Parliament in 1870.^[1]

Potts owned Ohinetahi for several years.^[2]^[3]

References

1. ^{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840-1984 |edition= 4 |origyear= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |isbn= |oclc= 154283103 |page=133}}
2. ^{{NZHPT|3349|Ohinetahi |20 August 2011}}
3. ^{{DNZB|title=Thomas Henry Potts|first= Paul|last= Star|id=2p27|accessdate=9 February 2017}}

External links

[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/creator/36416#/titles Digitized works by Thomas Henry Potts] at Biodiversity Heritage Library
Thomas Henry Potts in New Zealand birds website
Potts, Thomas Henry in 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand

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