George Richard Potter

{{short description|British historian}}

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George Richard Potter (1900 – 1981) was a British historian. From 1931 until 1965 he was Professor of Modern/Medieval History at the University of Sheffield.[https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/special/potter Potter Manuscripts] at the University of Sheffield website, retrieved 8 July 2018. He also edited the first volume of The New Cambridge Modern History.[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/new-cambridge-modern-history/1F3A455FF6D62052CBCFF0DBFD109803 The New Cambridge Modern History], University of Cambridge website, retrieved 8 July 2018.