Francis Lister Hawks Pott
Francis Lister Hawks Pott was an American Episcopal missionary and educator in China. He served as President of St. John's College, 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, but soon died in 1947.
Pott was married to Soo Ngoo Wong, who died in 1918, and the father of Olivia H. Pott and Walter Graham Hawks Pott.
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.
