. Staffordshire pottery and its history . to Mr ThomasHughes, who died in 1901. The Davenports were the only manufacturersof glass of any importance in North Staffordshire,and no attempt is now made to rival the produc-tions in this line of the southern part of the county. The success of the Davenports with their chinain the continental trade, which began to be markedduring the short peace of 1803-4, affected, nodoubt seriously, the trade of the Wedgwood firm, Jonathan Davenport of Leek. (1731-1771) 1 John Davenportof Westwood,and of Foxley,co. Hereford.(1799-1862) John Davenport of Westwood,
. Staffordshire pottery and its history . to Mr ThomasHughes, who died in 1901. The Davenports were the only manufacturersof glass of any importance in North Staffordshire,and no attempt is now made to rival the produc-tions in this line of the southern part of the county. The success of the Davenports with their chinain the continental trade, which began to be markedduring the short peace of 1803-4, affected, nodoubt seriously, the trade of the Wedgwood firm, Jonathan Davenport of Leek. (1731-1771) 1 John Davenportof Westwood,and of Foxley,co. Hereford.(1799-1862) John Davenport of Westwood, Master Potter ofLongport. (1765-1848) I Henry Davenport, William Davenport of Maer, Master Potter of Master Potter of Longport. Longport, killed Md Marianne, da of John out hunting. Wood, Master Potter of (1800-1835) Brownhills. (1805-1869) I George Horatio Daven-port of Foxley, co. Here-ford. Sold Staffs, estates,1868. I Harry TichborneDavenport, b. 1833 Henry Davenportof Maer, MasterPotter of Long-port, b. 1840. JOSIAH WEDGWOOD II 1769-1843 To face p. 149 METHODISM AND THE CAPITALISTS which since the first Josiahs death had been carried on nominally by the second Josiah, but actually by Thomas Byerley. It is not surprising, therefore, to find that in 1805 Wedgwoods also commenced the manufacture of porcelain, and to find them repeating on china dinner and tea services the patterns which had been so successful on the Queens Ware. Josiah Wedgwood II bought Maer in 1803 (where he was succeeded by Davenport), and began again to attend to business. Though the new china and the jasper and black basalt with reliefs in Egyptian red turned out under his regime fully maintained the reputation of the firm—as witness the medallions of the admirals and the Egyptian basalt so typical of the second period*— yet they never recovered the undisputed position they had held in the ornamental trade of the Continent. By 1819 or 182of indeed they ceased to try and compe
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