Edmund Potter

Edmund Potter (1802–1883) was an English politician and industrialist from Derbyshire. He was a businessman in Manchester, a Member of Parliament (MP) and a grandfather of the author Beatrix Potter.

He was a unitarian and, from 1861 to 1874, Liberal MP for Carlisle. Potter moved his business to Glossop in 1825, he rebuilt Joseph Lyne's Boggart Mill, and converted it to a printworks. He moved his family to Dinting Lodge in 1842. Originally calico printing was done by hand, but Potter introduced precision machine printing. By 1883, the mill employed 350, and had printed 1 million pieces on 42 machines. It was the world's largest calico printing factory.

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