Joseph Hyde Potts

Joseph Hyde Potts (1793 – 1865) was an accountant and in 1817 was the first employee to be engaged by the Bank of New South Wales (now Westpac).

On 9 August 1834 he married Emma Bates (d.1901). The marriage was conducted by the Rev. William Cowper at fashionable St. Phillip's Church. They had four children: Joseph (b. 1835), Harriet (b. 1837), Francis (b. 1839) and Josephine (b. 1843).

In 1830 Potts acquired 64 acre of land from Judge-Advocate John Wylde on what was previously known as Paddys Point and Woolloomooloo Hill and renamed it Potts Point. Potts purchased another 369 acre in 1834, 470 acre in 1835 and a further 625 acre in 1835. Potts Hill reservoir and Potts Point are located on a large portion of Joseph Hyde Potts' original land.

In 1841 the Crown granted a further 256 acre to Potts, who was at that time Secretary of the Bank of New South Wales, near where Homebush and Australian Catholic University's Mount Royal College campus is located at Strathfield is today.