# Mr. Pott — The Pickwick Papers character guide

> Mr. Pott in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mr. Pott, Pott, the great Pott, the mighty Pott

**First appearance:** 0005-iv

## Who they are

Editor of the Eatanswill Gazette, a pompous and quarrelsome newspaperman.

## In the story

### [Some Account of Eatanswill; of the State of Parties Therein; and of the Election of a Member to Serve in Parliament for that Ancient, Loyal, and Patriotic Borough](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xiii)

Editor of the Eatanswill Gazette, a Blue partisan, who hosts Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Winkle.

### [Comprising a brief description of the company at the Peacock assembled; and a tale told by a bagman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xiv)

Hosts Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Winkle; his enthusiasm for politics influences Mr. Pickwick.

### [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xviii)

Furious with Winkle over a poem in the Independent, but later reconciles and bids him farewell.

### [In which Mr. Pickwick encounters an old acquaintance—to which fortunate circumstance the reader is mainly indebted for matter of thrilling interest herein set down, concerning two great public men of might and power.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/li)

Mr. Pott, editor of the Eatanswill Gazette, engages in a heated argument with Slurk, leading to a physical fight.

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