Henry Ingle Potter was born in Farnham, Surrey, England on 3 January 1868 and was articled to John Colson (c.1819-1895) in Winchester, Hampshire from 1886 to 1889 and for a further two years with Edward William Mountford (1855-1908). He also studied at the South Kensington School of Art, University College, London, and at the Architectural Association in London. From 1891 to 1893 he worked as an assistant in the Architects' Department, City Surveyor's Office in Sheffield.
Potter qualified as an architect in 1894; was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1895. He commenced practice as architect in Sheffield in 1902 and was partnership with Sydney White Cranfield (1870-1961), and with Fowler & Sandford, subsequently Fowler, Sandford & Potter, a firm of surveyors in Sheffield.
Potterv was SDurveyor to the Sheffield Diocesan Dilapidations Board. He was co-author, with Sydney White Cranfield of Houses For The Working Classes In Urban Districts (London: B. T. Batsford, 1900).
His address was given as 17 Buckingham Street, Strand, London in 1895; 16 St. James' Row, Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1907 and 1914; 24 Norfolk Row, Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1910; and 8. St. James's Street, Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1923 and 1939. He died in Worthing, Sussex on 22 February 1957
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
‘Obituary’. RIBA Journal vol. 64, 1957 p.389