. Staffordshire pottery and its history . enware, p. 150. t Ward, u Stoke-on-Trent, 476. X Shaw, op. cit., p. 63. §* Aikin, Manchester, p. 522. *39 CHAPTER AND THE CAPITALISTS. YET another Staffordshire family foundedon blue-printed ware is that of Ridg-way. Ralph Ridgway was a master-potterat Chell, who failed in business in 1766, and de-parted with his family to Swansea, where themanufacture of porcelain was just commencing.*His younger son, Job (1759-1813), returned tothe Potteries in 17 81, and divided his time be-tween acfting as a Wesleyan missionary and workas a journeyman
. Staffordshire pottery and its history . enware, p. 150. t Ward, u Stoke-on-Trent, 476. X Shaw, op. cit., p. 63. §* Aikin, Manchester, p. 522. *39 CHAPTER AND THE CAPITALISTS. YET another Staffordshire family foundedon blue-printed ware is that of Ridg-way. Ralph Ridgway was a master-potterat Chell, who failed in business in 1766, and de-parted with his family to Swansea, where themanufacture of porcelain was just commencing.*His younger son, Job (1759-1813), returned tothe Potteries in 17 81, and divided his time be-tween acfting as a Wesleyan missionary and workas a journeyman potter in There forsome time he also manufactured lawn for thesieves used in sifting the clay slip, but this he gaveup, on the strange ground that it led to briberyand drunkenness, and returned to his pottersbench. At last, in 1792, he and his brother Georgestarted a factory of their own in Shelton, at thebottom of Albion Street, said to have been for- * H. Wedgwood, Romance of Staffordshire, 1, Wedgwood, op. p. Photo by H. J, Gover& JOB RIDGWAY 1759-1813 To face p. 141 METHODISM AND THE CAPITALISTS merly that of Warner Edwards.* It has beencalled the Bell Works, from the Blue Bell Innwhich stood opposite. Of course they made blueprinted, and prospered. In i 802 Job left his bro-ther, and built the well-known house and worksat Cauldon Place on the Cauldon canal, nowoccupied by the porcelain works of Brown, West-head, Moore & At Cauldon Place the firm,Job Ridgway & Sons, began in 1808 to makechina. Here, too, Job died in 1813, and was suc-ceeded by his son John Ridgway, under whom theCauldon Place china achieved so great other son William went back to the BellWorks, and, adding factory to factory, soon be-came by far the most important potter in Ridgway married the sister of Elijah Meyer,and made the fortune of his family. But his pot-ting was not so interesting as his religious zeal,so typical of the sentiments of
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