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Josiah Wedgwood FRS (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) [1] was an English potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist.Founding the Wedgwood company in 1759, he developed improved pottery bodies by systematic experimentation, and was the leader in the industrialisation of the manufacture of European pottery.
Josiah Spode I (1733–1797) (N. Freese) Josiah Spode (23 March 1733 – 18 August 1797) was an English potter and the founder of the English Spode pottery works which became famous for the high quality of its wares.
The mansion, an example of the Gothic Revival style, [3] is presented in the state it was in at the turn of the 20th century. The grounds also feature Victorian gardens. [4] [5] The house was owned by patriot and Philadelphia merchant John Ross during the late 18th century, who named his country estate after the home of Lafayette.
Enoch Wood (1759–1840) was an English potter and businessman, from one of the major families in Staffordshire pottery. Starting as a modeller, he established a successful business in Burslem in the Staffordshire Potteries , from 1790-1818 trading as Wood and Caldwell .
Depiction of William Adams (leaning against fireplace) with a cousin of the same name, at the former's house in Greengates The Greengates Pottery, ca. 1780. William Adams (baptised 1746; died 1805) [1] was an English potter, a maker of fine jasperware shortly after its development and introduction to the English market by Wedgwood.
The Centre County Grange Fair is most notable for allowing fairgoers to camp on the grounds, but the fair also has carnival rides, many types of food stands, bingo, and live concerts. As a county fair, it hosts animal shows, livestock contests, and 4H competitions, as well as the judging of baked goods, canned goods , quilts , vegetables, and ...
John Turner the elder (christened 7 June 1737, St Nicholas Church, Newport, Shropshire – 24 December 1787) was apprenticed in 1753 to the Staffordshire potter Daniel Bird. By 1756, he was established in a partnership with R. Banks, at Stoke-on-Trent , at a factory which has since been absorbed into the Spode group.
Thomas Turner (1749 – February 1809) was an English potter. He was the lessee of the celebrated Salopian porcelain company, or Caughley manufactory, during the later decades of the 18th century. He is not to be confused with the potter John Turner (1737-1787) and his family, of Lane End, Staffordshire, who were active in the same period.