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	William Cookworthy - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		WILLIAM COOKWORTHY (1705-1780), English potter, famous for his discovery of the existence of china-clay and chinastone in Cornwall, and as the first manufacturer of a porcelain similar in nature to the Chinese, from English materials, was born at Kingsbridge, Devon, of Quaker parents who were in humble circumstances.
		At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a London apothecary named Bevans, and he afterwards returned to the neighbourhood of his birthplace, and carried on business at Plymouth with the co-operation of his master, under the title of Bevans and Cookworthy.
		But Cookworthy deserves to be remembered for his discovery of those abundant supplies of English clay and rocks which form the foundation of English porcelain and fine earthenware (see Ceramics).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /William_Cookworthy (327 words)

	Cookworthy's Porcelain Experiments
		Cookworthy intended to call at Bovey and speak to a potter who was good at turning vessels and understood the application of the glaze.
		Cookworthy was now satisfied with the composition of the body and the glaze, but he could not make suitable large saggars (one foot wide).
		Cookworthy was of the opinion that their coal fired kilns were similar to those of Derby and Worcester.
	www.kalendar.demon.co.uk /porcexperiments.htm (1513 words)

	swuklink: William Cookworthy (1705-1780) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		William was born at Kingsbridge in Devon on April 12th, 1705, the son of a Quaker weaver.
		Cookworthy married Sarah Berry in 1735 but her early death in 1745 left him with five daughters to bring up.
		Cookworthy discovered the clays of Tregonning Hill in 1746 when he was invited to stay with Captain Nancarrow of the Great Work Mine to stay with him at Godolphin.
	www.swuklink.com /BAAAGBDF.php (1230 words)

	William Cookworthy
		Cookworthy was born at Kingsbridge, in South Devon, on 12th April 1705.
		On July 1796 William Cookworthy and Francis Fox of Plymouth took out an insurance policy, they were described as "chemist and druggist and apothecaries".
		Cookworthy had built a successful pharmacy, becomimg very wealthy in the process, and appeared to have lost little of his own money in the porcelain venture.
	www.kalendar.demon.co.uk /cookworthy.htm (589 words)

	Dowsing
		Cookworthy reported that local miners made their dowsing rods from a single forked twig of hazel or other wood between two and a half and three feet long.
		Cookworthy said that a good dowser could in this way discover all the features of concealed lodes: their changes in breadth, where they pinched out, and where they were displaced by crosscutting fractures.
		At one point Cookworthy declared that the lode had been squeezed to nothing; this was later confirmed to be correct by the local miners.
	www.healthyandwise.co.uk /dowsing.htm (3222 words)

	William Cookworthy, found the China Clay in Cornwall
		William was so poor that he could not afford the coach fare from Devon to London, and had to walk the whole 200 miles.
		Cookworthy made his cousin, Richard Champion, his manager of "William Cookworthy and Company." In 1774, Cookworthy sold his interest in the business and patent to Champion.
		William Cookworthy died on Tuesday October 17th 1780 and was buried in the family vault in the Westwell Street Burial Ground.
	www.cornwall-calling.co.uk /famous-cornish-people/cookworthy.htm (817 words)

	Plymouth - Old And Sold Antiques Auction & Marketplace
		The hard paste porcelain factory was established by William Cookworthy at Plymouth in 1768.
		Cookworthy was a plymouth chemist who for years had been deeply interested in the subject of porcelain manufacture.
		Cookworthy was sixty-three years old when he obtained his patent and founded the factory and he utterly lacked all experience in directing the mechanical processes and the details of management.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles/article277.shtml (524 words)

	William Cookworthy (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		William Cookworthy was born in 1705, the son of a Quaker weaver from Kingsbridge in Devon.
		William, unable to afford the coach fare from Devon to London, made the 200 mile journey on foot.
		Cookworthy's most famous achievement was his work at the pioneering stages of the porcelain industry in England.
	www.rpsgb.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /informationresources/museum/exhibitions/themotherofinvention/cook.html (478 words)

	Plymouth, William Cookworthy
		William Cookworthy was born at Kingsbridge, Devon, on April 11th 1705, the son of a weaver.
		William continued to practice as a Quaker and became a minister in the Plymouth Society of Friends.
		The earliest known extant piece of Cookworthy's hard-paste porcelain is now in the British Museum; a blue decorated mug bearing the Arms of Plymouth and the inscription "14 March 1768 C.F. " - presumably the initials mean "Cookworthy fecit" (made it).
	www.plymouthdata.info /PP-Cookworthy.htm (1060 words)

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		William Cookworthy was born in Kingsbridge, South Devon, on April 12, 1705.
		William married Sarah Berry in 1735, who gave him five daughters before she died in 1745.
		Cookworthy was up and running, streets ahead of his competitors.
	www.bbc.co.uk /insideout/southwest/series8/week6.shtml (1469 words)

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		Derby were introducing the artificial glassy porcelain, Cookworthy, following the accounts of Pere d'Entrecolles, spent many years in searching for English materials similar to those used by the Chinese.
		But Cookworthy deserves to be remembered for his discovery of those abundant supplies of English clay and rocks which See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /COM_COR/COOKWORTHY_WILLIAM_1705_178o_.html (525 words)

	37207
		This was done to celebrate the loco's connection with the china clay industry, and to commemorate the man who founded the Cornish china clay movement, which is now over two hundred and fifty years old.
		William Cookworthy was transferred back to Bristol Bath Road in October 1987, and then onto Cardiff Canton in May 1988.
		On the first of January 1989 the engine found itself on the move again, this time to the civil engineers pool, where it was re-painted in "Dutch" yellow and grey livery, that the locomotive carried when she arrived on the Plym Valley Railway.
	www.btinternet.com /~plymvalleyrailway/m_37207.html (557 words)

	William Cookworthy ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		William Faithorne, The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
		Adriaen Pynacker, William of Orange (William III) Commemorative Plate, 1690
		William Monson and His Wife, Ann Debonnaire c.
	www.wwar.com /masters/c/cookworthy-william.html (756 words)

	William Cookworthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		William Cookworthy (12 April 1705 – 17 October 1780) was an English chemist and a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) from Kingsbridge, Devon.
		He was also an associate of John Smeaton, who lodged at his house when he was engaged in building the third Eddystone Lighthouse (1756-1759).
		Cookworthy helped Smeaton with the development of hydraulic lime, which was essential to the successful building of the lighthouse.In 1768 he founded a works at Plymouth for the production of Plymouth Porcelain.
	www.tocatch.info /en/William_Cookworthy.htm (122 words)

	St Austell Parish page 2
		It was here that William Cookworthy found his first examples of the clay which was to give Cornwall a new industry.
		Trevarnon is the residence of William Coode, Esq.
		The manor of Tregorrick was purchased in 1771, by Charles Rashluigh, Esq.,of Sir Edward Dering, bart., Sir Roland Wynn, bart., and William Strickland, Esq., representatives of Edward Henshaw, Esq., who married the heiress of the Ropers, of Eltham, in Kent.
	bally.fortunecity.com /sligo/172/austell2.html (8268 words)

	thePeerage.com - Elizabeth Perring and others (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		She married Robert Were Fox, son of Robert Were Fox and Rachel Cookworthy Prideaux, in 1842.
		She was the daughter of Robert Were Fox and Rachel Cookworthy Prideaux.
		William Cookworthy Fox was born on 27 April 1824.
	www.thepeerage.com /p14460.htm (535 words)

	Antiques Digest - Index 015
		The Nantgarw porcelain factory was established at the little village of Nantgarw, near Cardiff, in 1811 by that vagrant porcelain painter William Billings ley and a little group of associates who had been induced to support the scheme.
		In 1770, when Cookworthy joined forces with Richard Champion and transferred the Plymouth factory to Bristol, the business was established in a build ing on Castle Green.
		It was established about 1752 by William Littler, the son of a Burslem potter, and came to an untimely end amidst financial difficulties in 1758.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles/index015.shtml (1115 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| England \| Cornwall \| Industry behind Cornish moonscape
		One refinery and two drying units will also be shut in Cornwall and a pit at Lee Moor, north of Plymouth in Devon, will also close, along with the refinery and drying unit.
		William Cookworthy's discovery led to the china clay industry in Cornwall
		He was looking for something to replicate the porcelain being imported from China when he came across the fine clay material which was then used as a fire-proof liner for steam engines.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/5391208.stm (648 words)

	William Cookworthy - Cornwall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to a Quaker chemist in London and walked all the way there, as he was unable to afford the coach fare.
		Having discovered these minerals in the Breage and Tregonning Hill areas of Cornwall, he set up a china works in Plymouth, where the first hard paste china was manufactured in the United Kingdom.
		Cookworthy was the inventor of a particular process for manufacturing ceramics using china clay and he continued to purchase his raw materials from quarries in Cornwall.
	www.cornwalls.co.uk /history/people/william_cookworthy.htm (211 words)

	Rosemary's Cornwall Links: People and Genealogy (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		William Golding lord of the flies author, who was born in Newquay Cornwall in 1911.
		William Murdoch lived in Redruth and is best known for inventing domestic gas lighting.
		William Lovett a chartist born in Newlyn in 1800 was a founder of The National Union Of The Working Classes in 1831.
	www.rosemarylinks.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /people.htm (2901 words)

	Ceramic Review Magazine (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		William Cookworthy (b.1705) was one of the greatest figures in the history of British porcelain making.
		Nigel Wood traces his discoveries, from the time Cookworthy spent investigating Cornish porcelain stones and china clay deposits to make the first true hard paste porcelains in Britain, to mastering the art of reduction firing on glazed wares.
		Cookworthy later ran factories in Plymouth and Bristol.
	www.ceramicreview.com.cob-web.org:8888 /article.asp?p_article=27549 (104 words)

	GENUKI/Devon: Kingsbridge - Genealogy
		Information about Kingsbridge's Cookworthy Museum of Rural Life can be found at the Devon Museums web-site.
		Fox, Hubert C. The story of William Cookworthy : Maker of porcelain and man of peace (2nd ed.), Southampton, Pearson and Lloyd (1995) 30 pp.
		The William Cookworthy Museum (The Old Grammar School, 108 Fore Street, Kingsbridge, Devon - Tel: Kingsbridge 3235) has extensive holdings of the Kingsbridge Gazette, and are indexing all references to personal names in it.
	genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk /DEV/Kingsbridge (1430 words)

	Mary Birkett Card: biography and bibliography
		Mary Birkett was born in Liverpool, the eldest of thirteen children born to William Birkett, a soap boiler and tallow chandler, and his wife Sarah, neé Harrison, the daughter of a Kendal shoemaker.
		His wife Susannah was the daughter of William Cookworthy of Plymouth, the Quaker chemist who discovered china clay, thus establishing the English porcelain industry.
		In 1807 she published a poem on the death of Joseph Williams, a revered Quaker elder.
	www.brycchancarey.com /abolition/birkettcard.htm (1598 words)

	Cornwall history - Cornish men and women, Past and present
		William Cookworthy Discoverer of china clay in Cornwall
		William Bligh captain of The Bounty, botanist, governor of New South Wales, admiral of the Royal Navy
		William Lovett Chartist and founder of the National Union Of The Working Classes
	www.cornwalls.co.uk /history/people (252 words)

	St Austell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Not long after William Cookworthy discovered china clay in Tregonning, the same mineral was found (in greater quantity) in the hills north of St Austell town.
		St Austell brewery runs The William Cookworthy, a training pub named after the man who discovered clay in Cornwall — the brewery provides bar staff training courses to St Austell brewery's own staff as well as staff from other pubs in Cornwall.
		Apart from the William Cookworthy there are 7 other pubs in the town centre: The Waterwheel, The White Hart, The Queens Head, The Seven Stars, The Stag, O'Callaghans (formerly The Sun),and The Western Inn.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/St_Austell (1344 words)

	Tregonning Hill China Clay and Brick Works
		Because of a slump in the china clay industry the Tregonning workings were abandoned towards the end of the decade, with the Careys leaving in 1839.
		In 1871 the Leeds sett was relinquished and passed on to William Harvey of Hayle.
		Five years later Leeds was being worked by William Argall of Breage and John Toy of Helston, the pair having sublet the property from William Harvey.
	www.trevithick-society.org.uk /industry/tregonning.htm (392 words)

	Alibris: Browse Books by ISBN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		1378228902: William Cowper: the continuing revaluation; an essay and a bibliography of Cowperian studies from 1895 to 1960
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	www.alibris.com /books/isbns/18808 (789 words)

	May 2004 Newsletter
		One of the first prominent Englishmen to be drawn to Swedenborg and the teachings he expounded was William Cookworthy, the man known famously as the father of the English porcelain industry.
		As an expression of how impressed Cookworthy was by the Swedenborg's theology, he personally translated one of Swedenborg's books Doctrine of Life from the original Latin into English.
		Among the prominent and influential figures entertained by William Cookworthy at his Plymouth home was the then Lieutenant James Cook and the botanist Sir Joseph Banks.
	www.newchurch.org.au /hurstville/Aug_2005_Newsletter.html (3729 words)

	Wheal Martyn China Clay Country Park » Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The QCA National Schemes of Work have been adapted to reflect the impact of the Clay Industry on the surrounding communties and countryside and to utilise resources available at the Country Park. The units of work, whilst devised for specific year groups can be easily adapted to suit individual class needs.
		In this unit children learn about the life of William Cookworthy, founding father of the Cornish Clay Industry.
		Through exploring his life, the children discover Cookworthy as both scientist and pioneer.
	www.wheal-martyn.com /childreneducation.html (568 words)

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