HICKS & MEIGH: THE STAFFORDSHIRE ESTABLISHMENT

HICKS & MEIGH:
THE STAFFORDSHIRE ESTABLISHMENT

BY KEN BARNES, THE JOHNSTON COLLECTION

Of the many families who contributed to the phenomenal success of ceramics manufactured in Staffordshire during the late 18th and early 19th Century, few were as well-established as the Meigh family.

Earthenwares made at the historically significant Old Hall Pottery in Hanley by the original Job Meigh, his son Job II and grandson Charles, were notable for their quality and durability. While Charles carried on his grandfather’s work and by the 1850s had been honoured in several ways, Job II struck out on his own, in 1803 forming a partnership with Richard Hicks, who had married Job’s sister Lydia in 1801. Job also married a potter’s daughter – Elizabeth Mellor – in 1805 and each of the attachments could be described as marriages made in heaven.

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