Thomas Bentley
1731–80
Porcelain manufacturer. Classically educated textile and general merchant in Liverpool. Met Josiah Wedgwood I in 1762 and became a partner in Wedgwood’s ceramics manufacturing business in 1769, specialising in decorative ware. Managed the Wedgwood studio in London, and introduced highly successful neoclassical design into Wedgwood ware.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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