biography text
The Potenger family, originally of Burghfield, near Reading, acquired in the seventeenth century the manor of Maidenhatch, in Pangbourne, and lands in Compton, to which Richard Potenger, a lawyer, eventually succeeded.1VCH Berks. iii. 305; iv. 18. As recorder of the borough, he was successful at Reading in 1727 and 1734 against a Tory. Re-elected without a contest in 1735 on appointment as a Welsh judge, he voted with the Administration on the Hessians in 1730 and the army in 1732, but against the excise bill in 1733. He died 26 Nov. 1739.