{{Short description|Canadian judge and politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | name = Herbert Pottle | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date |1907|2|16}} | birth_place = Flatrock, Newfoundland | death_date = {{death date and age|2002|9|21|1907|2|16}} | death_place = Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | office1 = Minister of Public Welfare | term_start1 = 1949 | term_end1 = 1955 | predecessor1 = ''Himself as Commissioner of Public Welfare.'' | successor1 = | office2 = Commissioner for Public Welfare | term_start2 = 1947 | term_end2 = 1949 | predecessor2 = Herman William Quinton ''as Commissioner of Public Health and Welfare.'' | successor2 = ''None, Commission of Government disbanded. Himself as Minister of Public Welfare.'' | office3 = Member of the House of Assembly for Carbonear-Bay de Verde | term_start3 = 1949 | term_end3 = 1956 | predecessor3 = ''None, district created.'' | successor3 = George W. Clarke | party = Liberal | occupation = clinical psychologist | alma_mater = Mount Allison University <br> University of Toronto | spouse = {{Marriage|Muriel Ethel Moran|1937}} | children = 2 daughters | father = William Pottle | mother = Patience Evely }} '''Herbert Lench Pottle''' (February 16, 1907 – September 21, 2002) was a Canadian politician, civil servant, magistrate and writer. He represented the electoral district of Carbonear-Bay de Verde in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1949 to 1956. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.<ref name=bio>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_enl/id/2324 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador |page=426 |title=Pottle, Herbert Lench}}</ref>
The son of William Pottle and Patience Evely, he was born in 1907<ref name=who/> in Flatrock, Newfoundland and received his early education there.<ref name=bio/> A clinical psychologist, he was an alumnus of Mount Allison University (B.A. 1932) and the University of Toronto (M.A. 1934, PhD 1937). Pottle married Muriel Ethel Moran in 1937; the couple had two daughters. He was employed by the Newfoundland Department of Education from 1939 to 1943. From 1943 to 1947, Pottle was a Child Welfare director and a judge in St. John's juvenile court.<ref name=who>{{cite book |url=http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_tools/id/18016 |title=Newfoundland Who's Who |year=1952 |page=78}}</ref>
From 1947 to 1949, he served in Newfoundland's Commission of Government as Commissioner for Public Welfare. He was elected to the provincial assembly in 1949 and served in the Newfoundland cabinet as Minister of Public Welfare.<ref name=who/> Pottle resigned from cabinet in 1955. He was subsequently named secretary for the United Church of Canada's board of information and stewardship, serving until 1963. From 1963 to 1972, he served in the Canadian Department of Health and Welfare.<ref name=bio/>
He died in Ottawa in 2002 at the age of 95.<ref name=tribute>{{cite web |url=http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2002/exec/0925n04.htm |title=Premier pays tribute to Herbert Pottle |date=September 25, 2002 |publisher=Government of Newfoundland}}</ref>
== Works ==
Source:<ref name=bio/>
* ''Dawn without Light'', political memoir (1979) * ''From the Nart Shore'', autobiography (1983) * ''Humour on the Rock'' (1983)
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
== External links == {{Archival records|title=Herbert Lench Pottle fonds}}
* [https://discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/herbert-lench-pottle-fonds Herbert Lench Pottle archival papers] held at the [https://utarms.library.utoronto.ca/ University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services] {{authority control}}
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