Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

Potter ’ s books continue to sell throughout the world, in multiple languages.

Potter ’ s family on both sides was from the Manchester area.

Beatrix ’ s father, Rupert William Potter ( 1832 – 1914 ), was educated in Manchester and trained as a barrister in London.

She and Beatrix remained friends throughout their lives and Annie's eight children were the recipients of many of Potter ’ s delightful picture letters.

It describes Potter ’ s maturing artistic and intellectual interests, her often amusing insights on the places she visited, and her unusual ability to observe nature and to describe it.

Beatrix Potter ’ s parents did not discourage higher education.

Findlay included many of Potter ’ s beautifully accurate fungi drawings in his Wayside & Woodland Fungi, thereby fulfilling her desire to one day have her fungi drawings published in a book.

Potter ’ s artistic and literary interests were deeply influenced by fairies, fairy tales and fantasy.

In 1893 the same printer brought several more drawings for Weatherly ’ s Our Dear Relations, another book of rhymes, and the following year Potter successfully sold a series of frog illustrations and verses for Changing Pictures, a popular annual offered by the art publisher Ernest Nister.

" It became one of the most famous children ’ s letters ever written and the basis of Potter ’ s future career as a writer-artist-storyteller.

The immense popularity of Potter ’ s books was based on the lively quality of her illustrations, the non-didactic nature of her stories, the depiction of the rural countryside, and the imaginative qualities she lent to her animal characters.

Visiting Hill Top every chance she got, Potter ’ s books written during this period ( such as The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, about the local shop in Near Sawrey and The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, a wood mouse ) reflect her increasing participation in village life and her delight in country living.

Hill Top remained a working farm but was now remodelled to allow for the tenant family and Potter ’ s private studio and work shop.

It was published only in the US during Potter ’ s lifetime, and not until 1952 in the UK.

Sister Anne, Potter ’ s version of the story of Bluebeard was written especially for her American readers but illustrated by Katharine Sturges.

Although they were childless, Potter played an important role in William ’ s large family, particularly enjoying her relationship with several nieces whom she helped educate and giving comfort and aid to her husband ’ s brothers and sisters.

Hill Top Farm was opened to the public by the National Trust in 1946 ; her artwork was displayed there until 1985 when it was moved to William Heelis ’ s former law offices in Hawkshead, also owned by the National Trust as the Beatrix Potter Gallery.

There are many interpretations of Potter ’ s literary work, the sources of her art, and interpretations of her life and times.

Potter ’ s country life and her farming has also been widely discussed in the work of Susan Denyer and by other authors in the publications of The National Trust.

Potter ’ s work as a scientific illustrator and her work in mycology is highlighted in several chapters in Linda Lear, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature, 2007 ; Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian Genius.

Little Hangleton is a fictional Muggle village notable as the place of origin of Voldemort's maternal and paternal ancestors, and as the place where he was restored to bodily form in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

* Pollux Black, a pureblood wizard, grandfather of Sirius Black in the Harry Potter universe

* Charles Potter, who printed wallpaper in Darwen, was a cousin of Edmund Potter, grandfather of Beatrix Potter

* William of Malmesbury: Historia Novella ( The Contemporary History ), Edited by Edmund King, Translated by K. R. Potter, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Other notable journalists, editors and cartoonists on the staff of Sun papers include Richard Ben Cramer, Russell Baker, Michael Sragow, John Carroll, James Grant, Turner Catledge, Rodney Crowther, Price Day, Margaret Dempsey-McManus-McKay, Edmund Duffy, J. Fred Essary, Thomas Flannery, Jack Germond, Mauritz A. Hallgren, David Hobby, Gerald W. Johnson, Kevin P. Kallaugher ( KAL ), Frank Kent, William Manchester, sportscaster Jim McKay, novelist Laura Lippman, columnist and correspondent Thomas O ' Neill, Hamilton Owens, Drew Pearson, Phil Potter, Louis Rukeyser, David Simon, Raymond S. Tompkins, Paul W. Ward, Mark Skinner Watson, Jules Witcover, Rafael Alvarez and Richard Q. Yardley.

Winner's art collection includes works by Jan Micker, William James, Edmund Dulac, E. H. Shepard, Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen and Beatrix Potter.

Croydon Parish Church is the burial place of six Archbishops of Canterbury: John Whitgift, Edmund Grindal, Gilbert Sheldon, William Wake, John Potter and Thomas Herring.

" But Edmund Wilson remained a fan of Potter, praising " the brevity and compactness of the presentation.

His parents were Sarah Potter ( 17 November 1783 – 16 July 1876 ), a weaver, and her husband, Edmund Parker ( 2 November 1767 – 7 November 1853 ), a builder.

Among the foremost of the Chicago industrialists, lawyers, financiers, and merchants were John Villiers Farwell, Edmund Dick Taylor, Potter Palmer, George Pullman, Charles Gray, Marshall Field, Richard Teller Crane, Martin Ryerson, John Jacob Glessner, Jacob Bunn, John Whitfield Bunn, John Graves Shedd, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Edward Avery Shedd, Charles Banks Shedd, Leander McCormick, Stanley Field, Charles Deering, James Deering, Robert Law, Francis Peabody, Leonard Richardson, Milo Barnum Richardson, Joseph Edward Otis, Frank Hatch Jones, Arthur Jerome Eddy, Arthur J. Caton, Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, Ezra Butler McCagg, Julius Rosenwald, Morris Selz, Harry Selz, William McCormick Blair, William Douglas Richardson, Charles Farwell, James Monroe Stryker and John Stryker of the Bunn-Richardson-Stryker-Taylor family ( See: John Whitfield Bunn and Jacob Bunn ), Samuel Insull, Max Adler, Lucius Fisher, Lucius Teeter, John Peter Altgeld, Walter Gurnee, Philip Danforth Armour, Gustavus Franklin Swift, Michael Morris, Jacob Best, Jonathan Y. Scammon, and many others.

Six are buried in Croydon Minster, neighbouring the Palace: John Whitgift, Edmund Grindal, Gilbert Sheldon, William Wake, John Potter and Thomas Herring.

Cuarón faced criticism from some of the more purist Harry Potter fans for his approach to the film.

Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by Dennis Potter, takes its title from " Into My Heart an Air That Kills " from A Shropshire Lad, the cycle also providing the name for the James Bond film Die Another Day: " But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day ".

With the proceeds from the books and a legacy from an aunt, Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a tiny village in the English Lake District near Ambleside in 1905.

Potter was eclectic in her tastes ; collecting fossils, studying archeological artifacts from London excavations, and interested in entomology.

That same year Potter used some of her income and a small inheritance from an aunt to buy Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey in Lancashire in the English Lake District.

Potter became the de facto estate manager for the Trust for seven years until the National Trust could afford to buy most of the property back from her.

Potter died of complications from pneumonia and heart disease on 22 December 1943 at Castle Cottage.

The Journal of Beatrix Potter, 1881 – 1897, transcribed from her code writings by Leslie Linder.

Some of these games, such as Pyramid from Battlestar Galactica, become real card games as the holder of the intellectual property develops and markets a suitable deck and ruleset for the game, while others, such as " Exploding Snap " from the Harry Potter franchise, lack sufficient descriptions of rules, or depend on cards or other hardware that are infeasible or physically impossible.

* Cassiopeia Black, a pure-blood witch from Harry Potter novels

" The former term plays off the fact that those not familiar with geocaching are called muggles, a term borrowed from the Harry Potter series of books which was rising in popularity at the same time Geocaching got its start.

* Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy, a character from J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

Examples would be: Tolkien's Morgoth of The Silmarillion as well as Sauron, the King of the Nazgûl and the others of the Nine Riders from The Lord of the Rings, Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter series, Lasky's Kludd and Nyra of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, Brooks's Warlock Lord of The Sword of Shannara, Jordan's Dark One of The Wheel of Time, and Eddings ' Torak of The Belgariad and Zandramas of The Malloreon, Rick Riordan's Kronos of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Goodkind's Darken Rahl and Emperor Jagang of The Sword of Truth, Dart-Thornton's Moragon, and Paolini's Galbatorix of The Inheritance Cycle.

" The Potter " is markedly different in tone from " The Monk ": whereas the earlier tale is " a thriller " the latter is more comic, its plot involving trickery and cunning rather than straightforward force.

Her earliest American ancestors were the immigrants John Anthony ( 1607 – 1675 ), who was from Hempstead, Essex, and his wife, Susanna Potter ( c. 1623-1674 ), who was from London, Middlesex.

The work was almost certainly principally written by Thomas Potter, and from internal evidence can be dated to around 1755.

In 1886, railroad magnate Collis Potter Huntington founded Newport News Shipbuilding, which was responsible for building six major World War I-era battleships for the U. S. Navy from 1907 – 1923.