. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. little more than two years from his obtaining the Act of. Parliament, he sold his patent right to a company of Staf- EICHARD CHAMPION IN STAFFOIlDSHmE. 257 fordsliire potters, who continued the manufacture at NewHall for some tmie, when the ordhiary soft-paste china,which had previously been tried b}^ Champion, was allowedto supersede it. Thus the works at Bristol were brought toa close, and the man


. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. little more than two years from his obtaining the Act of. Parliament, he sold his patent right to a company of Staf- EICHARD CHAMPION IN STAFFOIlDSHmE. 257 fordsliire potters, who continued the manufacture at NewHall for some tmie, when the ordhiary soft-paste china,which had previously been tried b}^ Champion, was allowedto supersede it. Thus the works at Bristol were brought toa close, and the manuflicture of porcelain was lost to thelocality. Champion himself is said to have removed for atime into Staffordshire, and to have remained there until theyear 1782. CHAPTER XIV. INTRODUCTION OF THE Mi^NUFACTUEE OF CHINA INTO STAFFORD-SHIRE. — WILLIAM LITTLER AND AARON WEDGWOOD. —champions PATENT BOUGHT BY A COMPANY. — WORKSESTABLISHED AT TUNSTALL. — REMOVED TO SHELTON.—NEW HALL WORKS. SAMUEL HOLLINS ; ANTHONY KEELING ; JOHN TURNER; JACOB WARBURTON, AND OTHERS.—EX-AMPLES OF NEW HALL CHINA.—JOSIAH WEDGWOOD ENTERSINTO PARTNERSHIP WITH MR. CARTHEW FOR WORKINGCORNISH STONE. — THOMAS BENTLEY VISITS PARIS.—WEDG-WOOD AND BENTLEYs DUTCH


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