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William Greatbatch (circa 1735 - 29 April 1813 [1]) was a noted potter at Fenton, Staffordshire, from the mid-eighteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Fenton was one of the six towns of the Staffordshire Potteries , which were joined in the early 20th century to become the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England.
The earliest figures cannot be attributed to specific makers, but by 1750 some figures are given to notable potters, such as Thomas Whieldon, who probably invented tortoiseshell ware in the late 1740s. Others, by his imitators, are called "Whieldon-type"; many were probably made by William Greatbatch, formerly with Whieldon.
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Teapot by Thomas Whieldon and Josiah Wedgwood, 1760–1765. "Whieldon-type" Staffordshire figure; this is a large group of wares of unclear origin. Thomas Whieldon (September 1719 in Penkhull, Staffordshire – March 1795) was an English potter who played a leading role in the development of Staffordshire pottery.
The site was purchased in 1789 by William Ward who split it into two pot banks: the Park Place Works subsequently named the Roslyn works, and the Wards Pot Bank which was sold to John Hendley Sheridan in 1818. In the 1850s Sheridan had rented out the site to Thomas Cooper who employed 41 adults and 26 children to produce china and parian figures.
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Greatbatch, a surname, may refer to: Bruce Greatbatch (1917–1989), British colonial official; Mark Greatbatch (born 1963), New Zealand cricketer; Shaun Greatbatch (born 1969), English darts player; William Greatbatch, British potter; Wilson Greatbatch (1919–2011), American inventor
Son William, continued potting apparently working for several potters until he returned to the original factory 1824-1829 to produce again in the Turner name. His marriage to Elizabeth Wright was 9 November 1799. His bust, by George Ray, is in Stoke-on-Trent City Museum. [6]