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|name = Arthur Potter, [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]], [[CBE]]<br />
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1905|04|07|df=yes}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Dublin]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] (now [[Republic of Ireland]])<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|1998|02|25|1905|04|07|df=yes}}<br />
|death_place = [[Easebourne]], [[Midhurst]], [[West Sussex]], [[England]]<br />
|rank = [[Brigadier (United Kingdom)|Brigadier]]<br />
|serviceyears = 1943-1947<br />
|allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}}<br />
|branch = {{flagicon|British Raj}} [[British Indian Army]]<br />
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|battles = [[Second World War]]<br />
|awards = [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]], [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]], [[Mentioned in Dispatches]] <br />
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[[Brigadier (United Kingdom)|Brigadier]] '''Arthur Kingscote Potter''' {{post-nominals|CMG|CBE}} (7 April 1905 – 25 February 1998) was a [[British Indian Army]] officer, civil servant and diplomat.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
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Potter was born in [[Dublin]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], the son of Richard Ellis Potter and Harriot Isabel Kingscote (b. 22 Dec 1865, d. 3 Apr 1940). He was educated at [[Charterhouse School]] and [[New College, Oxford]].<ref name=unithistories>{{cite web |website=World War II Unit Histories|title=British > Indian Army > P > Potter, Arthur Kingscote| url=http://www.unithistories.com/units_index/default.asp?file=../officers/personsx.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408060638/http://www.unithistories.com/units_index/default.asp?file=../officers/personsx.html | archive-date=8 April 2018 | url-status=dead}} Select British > Indian Army > P</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
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He entered the [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|Indian Civil Service]] on 9 October 1928.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=14494|date=9 November 1928|page=1235|city=e}}</ref> In December of that year he was posted to Burma as Assistant Commissioner, and oversaw the Government relief effort following the [[1930 Pyu earthquake]]. In 1934 Potter became a [[District Commissioner (British Colonial)|District Commissioner]] in Burma and in 1937 he was appointed Controller of Finance.<ref name=unithistories/><br />
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In 1942, Potter became financial advisor to the [[British Burma Army]], before serving briefly as Financial Secretary to the Government of Burma. On 1 June 1943 he received a commission in the British Indian Army and subsequently worked as financial adviser to the [[11th Army Group]]. From 1944 to 1947 he was Chief Financial Officer to the Military Administration of Burma, and he was made a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] in June 1946.<ref name=unithistories/><br />
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In November 1947, he was transferred to [[HM Treasury]], and was the Treasury's representative in India, Burma and Pakistan until 1950.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=38135|date=28 November 1947|page=5653}}</ref> Between 1950 and 1956 Potter was Assistant Secretary at HM Treasury. His final posting was as a Counsellor in the UK Delegation to [[NATO]] in Paris from 1956 to his retirement in 1965. Potter was made a [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]] in the [[1957 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=40960|date=28 December 1956|page=4|supp=y}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
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On 20 July 1950, he married Hilda Hodgkinson Butterfield, the daughter of William Arthur Butterfield OBE and Rebecca Emelda Stevenson; they had one daughter, Beatrice.<ref name=unithistories/><br />
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