The Tea-Cup Revolutionary

A childhood sickness left Josiah with a disability which might have prevented him following in the family pottery business. But he turned from manufacture to innovation, developing a new earthenware so popular that soon he was supplying the everyday tables of Staffordshire with the very same crockery he sold to the royalty of Europe.

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