Michael Rhodes
2008-03-12 12:52:15 UTC
Neil Jeffery Haigh Potter, journalist and writer: born Flixton,
Lancashire 7 October 1919; twice married (one son, one daughter); died
London 12 January 2008.Neil Potter, doyen of the oil industry press
corps, was one of the great journalistic survivors and remained at his
keyboard till the very end. Although terrier-like at press conferences
– Potter would not let oil company executives get away with anything –
he was a personally unassuming man, who always remained polite,
confident in the encyclopaedic knowledge acquired in his years in the
business. To his colleagues he was "the Oilman".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/neil-potter-journalist-dubbed-the-oilman-794435.html
Lancashire 7 October 1919; twice married (one son, one daughter); died
London 12 January 2008.Neil Potter, doyen of the oil industry press
corps, was one of the great journalistic survivors and remained at his
keyboard till the very end. Although terrier-like at press conferences
– Potter would not let oil company executives get away with anything –
he was a personally unassuming man, who always remained polite,
confident in the encyclopaedic knowledge acquired in his years in the
business. To his colleagues he was "the Oilman".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/neil-potter-journalist-dubbed-the-oilman-794435.html