biography
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Copeland, William Taylor
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1797–1868)
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| biography:
| China manufacturer, probably born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, C England, UK. He managed the Spode concerns in Stoke and London (1827–33), became the partner of Spode in 1833, and from 1846 produced Parian (imitation marble) groups and statuettes, and bone china. He also invented a filter press for working clay, was one of the founders of the North Staffordshire Railway, and became MP for Stoke (1837–52, 1857–65). |
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