POTENGER, Richard (?1690-1739), of Reading and Compton, Berks.

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.VCH 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.