Mrs. James; modeller, mother of the late well-known and respected collector, Mr. Edwin James, of Bristol.
Henry Bone (the celebrated enameller). He is shown, by Mr. Owen, to have been apprenticed on the 20th of January, 1772, to “Richard Champion, China Manufacturer, & Judith his wife, for seven years.” He was born at Truro, in February, 1755, so that at the date of his apprenticeship to Champion he would be seventeen years old. The presumption is that young Bone, whose father was a cabinet-maker at Plymouth, was originally apprenticed to Cookworthy at Plymouth, and became a “turn-over,” with re-apprenticeship, to Champion. He became an R.A. in 1811, and died full of honours in 1834.
William Stephens; son of William Stephens, of Plymouth, and, in 1771, of Bristol. Apprenticed to Champion on the same day as Bone, and probably also a “turn-over” from Cookworthy. He was a china painter.
John Hayden; china painter, of the same family as Benjamin Hayden, R.A. He was the son of John Hayden, of Plymouth, shoemaker, and was apprenticed to Champion on the same day as Bone and Stephens, and the probability certainly is that these three Plymouth youths, all apprenticed on the same day to Richard Champion, who succeeded to the Plymouth works, were transferred to him by Cookworthy and re-apprenticed.
Samuel Daw, apprenticed January 23rd, 1772.
Samuel Andrews Lloyd, apprenticed December 31st, 1772. He was son of Edward Lloyd, merchant, of Bristol, and nephew of Mrs. Champion.
Jacob Alsop, apprenticed as a china painter June 18th, 1773. Son of Uriah Alsop, coalminer, of Stapleton.
Samuel Banford, apprenticed as a china painter same day. Son of Thomas Banford, of Berkeley.
John Garland, apprenticed as a china painter same day. Son of Richard Garland, of Bristol, labourer.
William Wright, apprenticed as a china painter April 8th, 1775. Son of Wm. Wright, of Wotton-under-Edge.