Francis Lister Hawks Pott

{{short description|American Episcopal missionary and educator in China}}

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Francis Lister Hawks Pott ({{zh|t=卜舫濟}}; February 22, 1864 – March 7, 1947) was an American Episcopal missionary and educator in China. He served as President of St. John's College (later renamed St. John's University), one of China's oldest and most prestigious universities, from 1888 until 1941. With the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941 and the Japanese occupation of the Shanghai International Settlement, he left for the United States. After World War II, he returned to Shanghai.

Pott was married to Soo Ngoo Wong ({{zh|t=黃素娥|p=Huáng Sù'é}}), who died in 1918. Their children were James Hawks Pott, William Sumner Appleton Hawks Pott, Olivia Hawks Pott, and Walter Graham Hawks Pott.

In 1919 in Shanghai, he married Emily Georgiana née Browne, the widow of his St. John’s colleague Frederick Clement Cooper and mother of Gwendolin and Mervyn Cooper.

Pott was educated at the Trinity School, received a bachelor's degree from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1883, and a degree in divinity General Theological Seminary in 1886.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k2TOAAAAMAAJ&q=Francis+Lister+Hawks+Pott+columbia+college&pg=PA658|title=Officers and Graduates of Columbia College, Originally the College of the Province of New York Known as King's College: General Catalogue 1754-1900|date=1900|publisher=Columbia University|pages=166|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Pott, Francis Lister Hawks {{!}} BDCC|url=http://bdcconline.net/en/stories/pott-francis-lister-hawks|access-date=2020-07-18|website=bdcconline.net}}{{Cite web|date=July 1, 1947|title=Trinity College Bulletin, 1946-1947 (Necrology)|url=https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1541&context=bulletin|access-date=July 18, 2020|website=Trinity College Digital Repository}}

Bibliography

[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Pott%2C%20F.%20L.%20Hawks%20%28Francis%20Lister%20Hawks%29%2C%201864-1947 Pott, F. L. Hawks (Francis Lister Hawks), 1864-1947]
[https://archive.org/stream/pts_sketchofchineseh_3720-1066/pts_sketchofchineseh_3720-1066_djvu.txt Sketch of Chinese history [microform] ]
{{cite book|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012347909|title=Lessons in the Shanghai dialect|author=Francis Lister Hawks Pott|year=1907|publisher=Printed at the American Presbyterian mission press|location=Shanghai}}
{{cite book|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100693345|title=滬語開路 = Conversational exercises in the Shanghai dialect / Hu yu kai lu = Conversational exercises in the Shanghai dialect|author1=Francis Lister Hawks Pott|author2=Frank Joseph Rawlinson|series = Conversational exercises in the Shanghai dialect|author2-link=Frank Joseph Rawlinson|year=1915|publisher=Shanghai mei hua shu guan|location=Shanghai}}
{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LWbiAAAAMAAJ |title=Lessons in the Shanghai dialect |author=Francis Lister Hawks Pott |year=1924 |publisher=Commercial Press }}
[https://archive.org/details/outbreakinchina00pottgoog The Outbreak in China: Its Causes]. (New York: James Pott and Co., 1900)
[https://books.google.com/books?id=LXYZAAAAYAAJ A Sketch of Chinese History] (New York: Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1913)
[https://archive.org/details/emergencyinchin00pottgoog The Emergency in China] (New York: Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, 1913)
A Short History of Shanghai: Being an Account of the Growth and Development of the International Settlement (Kelly and Walsh, Limited, 1928)