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About William Cookworthy
William Cookworthy was an English Quaker minister, a successful pharmacist and an innovator in several fields of technology. He was the first person in Britain to discover how to make hard-paste porcelain, like that imported from China. He subsequently discovered china clay in Cornwall. In 1768 he founded a works at Plymouth for the production of Plymouth porcelain; in 1770 he moved the factory to Bristol, to become Bristol porcelain, before selling it to a partner in 1773. In Kingsbridge there is now a museum named after him which features an exhibition about his life and works.
Everything about William Cookworthy →- Occupation
- chemist, pharmacist, inventor
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- April 12, 1705
- Died
- October 17, 1780