RICHMOND John

Posted on: October 19th, 2016 by webfooted

The son of William Richmond of Bristol, labourer (A).

1806 9 Jun. He was apprenticed to Edward Patience (A, Ao).
1818 He was one of eight journeymen potters who was convicted of entering into an unlawful agreement for ‘controlling and affecting Messrs. Wm. & Thos. Powell, being persons carrying on the manufacture trade or business of a potter, in the conduct or management thereof, & severally sentenced to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for one month’.  The Bright goblet to commemorate this event was made on 4 Dec. 1818 (Bristol Museum Acc. No. 2225). He was employed by W. & T. Powell.

 

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