if local authorities had to look to Whitehall for sanction for their actions, then no-one of any calibre would get involved in local government. He also signed a motion opposing the "Suez Group" which supported the development of an economic and politically based organisation behind NATO. At the 1959 general election Pott faced down a renewed Labour onslaught which tried to gain the seat. He increased the majority to 3,838, with the help of an unofficial Liberal candidate intervening. In May 1960 he tried to stop Esso building an oil pipeline between its refinery at Fawley and London Heathrow Airport. Death His Parliamentary activity was reduced by illness, although he did speak in support of the Conservative candidate in the Chippenham by-election in 1962. In 1963 Pott announced that he would not fight the next election, but in the end he was found dead in bed at his London flat in January 1964 before Parliament had been dissolved. References "Who Was Who", A & C Black External links 1908 births 1964 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies 20th-century English farmers Royal Air Force squadron leaders UK MPs 1955–1959 UK MPs 1959–1964 Members of Hampshire County Council Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II