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		The Whieldon family is first mentioned in about 1660, when the first Whieldon bought a piece of land in Ipstones, Staffoedshire, England, and built a farm on it, called Blackbrook Farm.
		A daughter of the latter married a son of Thomas Whieldon.
		Thomas Whieldon bought a number of houses, estates, one was Stoke Hall, also called Whieldon Grove, an other was Hales Hall, where his widow, Sarah née Turner lived until she died in 1827.
	www.dk-yeoman.dk /fd/uk/whieldon.htm (208 words)

	Tortoise-Shell Ware - Old And Sold Antiques Auction & Marketplace
		Whieldon achieved this tortoise-shell effect by using a cream-colored body as the base over which blurred patches of color were dusted.
		Whieldon never marked his wares, so far as is known, but his tortoise-shell can be recognized by the clearance and sparkle of the glaze.
		Whieldon had taken the ordinary white bisque, experimented with colors in lead glaze, modeled dishes in the forms of fruits and vegetables, and so produced excellent likenesses of melons, pineapples, and cabbages.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles/article366.shtml (694 words)

	Josiah Wedgwood: Definition and links.
		Born the twelfth and youngest child of Thomas and Mary Wedgwood, Josiah Wedgwood survived a childhood bout of smallpox to serve as an apprentice potter under first his father -- who owned the Churchyard Works in Burslem, Staffordshire, England -- then his eldest brother.
		In his early twenties, Wedgwood began working with the most renowned English pottery-maker of his day, Thomas Whieldon[?].
		There he began experimenting with a wide variety of pottery techniques, an experimentation that crossed in his mind with the burgeoning early industrial city of Manchester, which was nearby.
	www.encyclopedian.com /jo/Josiah-Wedgwood.html (579 words)

	Industrial Sites: Thomas Whieldon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thomas Whieldon was one of the most important and influential potters of his day.
		A number of important potters, including Josiah Spode, served their apprenticeships with Thomas Whieldon and between 1754 and 1759 Whieldon took Josiah Wedgwood as a business partner.
		Thomas Whieldon retired in 1780 and the factory at Fenton was demolished in the same year.
	www2002.stoke.gov.uk /museums/pmag/Nof_website1/local_history_static_exhibitions/industrial_sites/pages/whieldon.htm (133 words)

	WEDGWOOD, JOSIAH (1730-1795) - Online Information article about WEDGWOOD, JOSIAH (1730-1795) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Josiah, born in 1730, was the youngest child of another Thomas Wedgwood, who owned a small but thriving pottery in Burslem.
		In 1744 he was apprenticed to his eldest brother, who had succeeded to the management of his father's pottery; and in1752, shortly after the term of his apprenticeship had expired, he became manager of a small pottery at Stoke-upon-Trent, known as Alder's pottery, at a very moderate salary.
		Many of Whieldon's apprentices afterwards became noted potters, and there can be little doubt that Wedgwood gained greatly at this period of his life by his association with Whieldon.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /WAT_WIL/WEDGWOOD_JOSIAH_1730_1795_.html (1077 words)

	Josiah Wedgwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 – January 3, 1795) was an English potter, credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of pottery.
		Born the twelfth and youngest child of Thomas and Mary Wedgwood, Josiah Wedgwood survived a childhood bout of smallpox to serve as an apprentice potter under his eldest brother Thomas Wedgwood (1716-1773).
		In 1780, his long-time business partner Thomas Bentley died, and Wedgwood turned to Darwin for help in running the business.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Josiah_Wedgwood (666 words)

	Thomas Whieldon
		Aaron Wood was apprenticed with the Thomas Wedgwood, Jr., firm from 1731 to 1746, when he left to work with Whieldon.
		Whieldon produced salt glazed ware, agate ware and the cream-coloured earthenware which was later perfected by Josiah Wedgwood.
		In 1749, when Josiah Spode I was about 16, he was apprenticed to Thomas Whieldon of Fenton whose work was well in advance of other potters of the time, in both form and colour.
	www.thepotteries.org /people/whieldon_thos.htm (982 words)

	Josiah Wedgewood
		Whieldon was a well-known master potter and was considered to be the ‘father’ of British pottery.
		Josiah had an agreement with Thomas Whieldon which allowed him to do experimental work and keep the results to himself.
		In 1769 the work of Josiah's partnership with his cousin, Thomas Wedgwood for the manufacture of useful wares is impressed with this mark made with a slug.
	www.antiquesndynasties.com /josiah_wedgewood.htm (905 words)

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		Danforth, Thomas Danforth, Thomas, 1703-86, American pewterer, founder of a family of celebrated pewterers, b.
		The first important member of the family was Thomas Minton, 1765-1836, who founded a small pottery at Stoke-on-Trent.
		At the age of nine he went to work in the plant of his brother Thomas in Burslem, and in 1751, with a partner, he started in business.
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	Dates in the history and development of Stoke-on-Trent
		Thomas Adams of Burslem left his 'best yron chymney' to his son William and his other chimney to his daughter Ellen.
		Thomas Whieldon was in partnership with Josiah Wedgwood I from 1754 to 1759.
		Thomas Whieldon's products included salt glazed wares, agateware and a cream coloured earthenware which was later perfected as Queens Ware by Wedgwood.
	www.thepotteries.org /dates/stoke.htm (1753 words)

	Josiah Wedgwood
		The most distinguished of English manufacturers of pottery, came of a family many members of which had been established as potters in Staffordshire throughout the 17th century and had played a notable part in the development of the infant industry.
		Thomas Wedgwood of Burslem was one of the best of the early saltglaze potters.
		In 1744 he was apprenticed to his eldest brother, who had succeeded to the management of his father's pottery; and in 1752, shortly after the term of his apprenticeship had expired, he became manager of a small pottery at Stoke-upon-Trent, known as Alder's pottery, at a very moderate salary.
	www.nndb.com /people/821/000049674 (849 words)

	RootsWeb: GENBRIT-L WHIELDON of Staffordshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thomas Whieldon (?) who died early, and was married to NN Barnett, the
		Mary Eliane Whieldon, born 1898, died 1988 in Aarhus, Denmark.
		WHIELDON of Staffordshire by "Ulrich Alster Klug" < >
	archiver.rootsweb.com /th/read/GENBRIT/1999-06/0930143511 (170 words)

	Josiah Spode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He earned renown in the pottery business for perfecting the transfer printing process in 1784 and developing fine bone china, also known as porcelain.
		Spode was a former apprentice of potter Thomas Whieldon, but left when Whieldon took in Josiah Wedgwood as a business partner.
		In 1761 Spode created a factory in Shelton, followed by another in Stoke in 1764.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Josiah_Spode (131 words)

	Port Sunlight / Lady Lever Art Gallery /
		The youngest child of the potter Thomas Wedgwood, Josiah came from a family whose members had been potters since the 17th century.
		An attack of smallpox seriously curtailed his work (the disease later affected his right leg, which was then amputated); the consequent inactivity, however, enabled him to read, research, and experiment in his craft.
		After inventing the improved green glaze still popular today, Wedgwood terminated his partnership with Whieldon and went into business for himself at Burslem, first at the Ivy House factory, where he perfected cream-coloured earthenware that, because of Queen Charlotte's patronage in 1765, was called Queen's ware.
	www.portsunlight.org.uk /gallery/artists/wedgwood.htm (662 words)

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		Stoke on Trent is the center of the British ceramic industry and is commonly known as the potteries.
		The industry's growth was aided by the opening of the Trent and Mersey canal in 1777.
		In 1762 Wedgwood met Thomas Bentley in Liverpool.
	www.painsley.org.uk /badyrapottery/localfactories.htm (371 words)

	britannia-britannia ALL THINGS BRITISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wedgwood (1730-1795) was the 12th child of potter Thomas Wedgwood, and his grandfather and great-grandfather had been potters, too.
		His mother was determined to provide Josiah with a good education, so from the tender age of 6 he walked 7 miles to school every day in Newcastle-upon-Lyme.
		He was left with a weak knee, which meant he was unable to operate the traditional potter's wheel.
	www.royd.moore.btinternet.co.uk /Wedgewood.htm (656 words)

	Architecturals.net - Online Architectural Antique Market
		Josiah Wedgwood was the youngest of thirteen children who was born in 1730, in Burslem, Stoke, to potter Thomas Wedgwood.
		His father died when he was 9, and he was apprenticed to his elder brother to learn the trade of a potter.
		In 1754 Josiah went into partnership with Thomas Whieldon, a well-respected potter, and eventually he set up his own shop is Burslem.
	www.architecturals.net /tip.cfm?articleID=3072 (471 words)

	Notebook
		In one class of wares, popularly attributed to John Astbury, but certainly also made by Thomas Whieldon and others, pads of pipe clay stamped with a variety of simple designs were applied on a red ground.
		He was quick to associate himself with the incipient neoclassical movement in art of the 1760s, and he found a kindred spirit in Thomas Bentley, his partner from 1769 in the manufacture of ornamental wares.
		Although he employed the best artists he could find to model the reliefs with which these wares are decorated, and although he applied to them the most rigorous technical standards, they are to the modern taste rather cold in their devotion to classical purity, and sentimental in their rendering of more homely themes.
	www.noteaccess.com /APPROACHES/DecorativeAA/PEnglish.htm (3528 words)

	Wedgwood, Josiah. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At the age of nine he went to work at the plant owned by his brother Thomas in Burslem, and in 1751, with a partner, he started in business.
		In 1753 he joined Thomas Whieldon of Fenton, then one of the foremost potters of Staffordshire, and in 1759 Wedgwood started his own business at the Ivy House Works, Burslem.
		In that year he took into partnership Thomas Bentley, who remained a valuable ally until his death in 1780.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/65/we/Wedgwood.html (514 words)

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		Around this time manufacturers worked with one type of glaze while experiments were in progress to match or 'frit' different glazes to different clay bodies around the 1740's Enoch Booth made a fine glaze from lead powder, flint and clay which gave a good even coat when biscuit ware was dipped into it.
		Many makers imitated this and the name 'Whieldon' is now a generic name describing a 'style' that was developed by Thomas Whieldon.
		Thomas Whieldon had also made agate ware handles for knives sometime before 1740.
	www.media.uwe.ac.uk /featofclay/history.htm (1219 words)

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		The vast majority of cow creamers, however, were made in pottery and range in quality from the sensitively modelled cows produced by Thomas Whieldon in the 1760s to the relatively crude productions of unnamed potters in Yorkshire and Scotland.
		At the other end of the time scale are early 20th century creamers of a somewhat stereotyped form, and modern reproductions made to cater to the growing demand from collectors.
		Most desirable are the creamers ascribed to Thomas Whieldon, with the characteristic sponged or splashed 'tortoiseshell' effect or with the distinctive streaky glazes associated with this potter.
	www.collectorcafe.com /article_archive.asp?article=580&id=1118 (545 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		'''Thomas Whieldon''' was one of the most respected and well known pottery potters of his time.
		He produced this product by applying the element s copper and manganese to a cream coloured earthenware in order to stain it.
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Thomas Whieldon.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Thomas_Whieldon.html (219 words)

	Historic Ceramics
		In 1740 Enoch Booth introduced a cream-bodied refined earthenware that was soon being used by many potters including Thomas Whieldon and Josiah Wedgewood (Noël Hume 2001:204, 209).
		This pottery is also referred to as Whieldon ware, though it was made by many factories between the 1750s – 1770s (Noël Hume 1970:124; Barker and Halfpenny 1990:36).
		In partnership, Thomas Whieldon and Josiah Wedgewood developed a rich green-glazed cream-colored ware in 1759.
	www.jefpat.org /diagnostic/Historic_Ceramic_Web_Page/Historic%20Ware%20Descriptions/creamware.htm (684 words)

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		This was in fact a blessing in disguise because although it stopped him from working the potter's wheel with his foot, it meant that he turned his mind to the way pottery was made and the different types which could be produced.
		Josiah cherished his wife who he called 'Sally', and told his friend Thomas Bentley that she was his 'chief help-mate'.
		Thomas Bentley died and Josiah was very sad to lose such a close friend and business partner.
	www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk /wedgwood_chronology.htm (1415 words)

	"Josiah Wedgwood Part 1" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Whieldon was a master potter of some repute and is considered now to be the ‘father’ of British pottery.
		Whieldon was obviously no fool and I am sure that it cannot have been as simple as that but Wedgwood kept a notebook of his experimental work which still survives in the Wedgwood museum.
		A vegiform teapot of the Whieldon period that is typical of the work Josiah was first involved with.
	www.abcir.org /jwedgwood1.html (900 words)

	Majolica on Both Sides of the Atlantic by Marilyn Karmason
		The majolica shared the exhibition with Chinese Export partridge tureens, 18-century Staffordshire figurals, plates and teapots, Renaissance chargers majestic and tin-glazed, mottled Whieldon plates, pale blue and white Wedgwood table ornaments and potpourri urns, Meissen birds, a Bernard Palissy 16th-century Fecundity platter replicated in Delft, and Aesthetic Movement Japanesque pieces.
		Important in the 18th-century development of ceramics at Stoke-on-Trent were John Astbury, Thomas Whieldon and his young partner, Josiah Wedgwood; Ralph Wood, and Thomas Minton.
		With Thomas Minton's death in 1835, his son, Herbert, became president of Minton and Co., thereby leading to the production of Victorian majolica.
	www.majolicasociety.com /majolica_by_karmason.htm (2468 words)

	Wedgwood
		He first worked in the pottery belonging to his brother Thomas, where he acquired the skills necessary to become an expert"thrower", that is, where he learned how to effectively throw the clay onto the forming wheel.
		A serious bout with smallpox at 11 left Josiah somewhat debilitated, especially injuring his right knee which was to plague him for the rest of his life.
		In the same way that Thomas Whieldon encouraged him to be discrete about his developments when first starting out, Josiah demanded the same kind of secretive silence from his workers at Etruria.
	www.faculty.umb.edu /elizabeth_fay/wedgwood.html (2411 words)

	Darwin Day Celebration - englishL
		Although Josiah had limited formal education, he became very skilled at "throwing on the wheel" during the five years he was apprenticed to his brother.
		From Whieldon he gained technical skill and acquired management skills that were to become the foundation of his success.
		Josiah cherished his well educated and capable wife, whom he called 'Sally', and told his friend Thomas Bentley that she was his 'chief help-mate'.
	www.darwinday.org /englishL/life/maternal.html (739 words)

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