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William Cookworthy (12
April 1705 – 17
October 1780) was an
English Quaker minister, a
successful pharmacist and an
innovator in
several fields of technology...
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Kingsbridge Town Hall building, and a
museum devoted to the
chemist William Cookworthy who was born in the town in 1705.
There are two
supermarkets in Kingsbridge:...
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Joseph Cookworthy (1828 – 21
February 1909) was a
settler of
Western Australia. He
arrived in the
colony in 1873,
having previously been an army officer...
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making Bristol porcelain, was
working with a chemist,
William Cookworthy.
Cookworthy began a
search for good
quality cobalt oxide to give the blue glaze...
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mineralogical map of
France to the
French Academy of Sciences.
William Cookworthy discovers kaolin in Cornwall. Jean le Rond d'Alembert
develops the theory...
- 22 –
Peter Artedi,
Swedish naturalist (died 1735)
April 11 –
William Cookworthy,
English chemist (died 1780) June 21 –
David Hartley,
English physician...
- Traité des
arbres fruitiers is
published in Paris.
March 17 –
William Cookworthy is
granted a
patent for the
manufacture of
porcelain from
kaolinite in...
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Edward Aylmer Jones, of the
Royal Engineers, and his wife Lilian, née
Cookworthy. He was
educated at King James's
Grammar School, Almondbury, near Huddersfield...
- Land's End to
Plymouth road went
through the town.
Along with
William Cookworthy's discovery of
china clay at
Tregonning Hill in west Cornwall, and the...
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Royal and
Royal Hotel, and much of
Union Street.
Local chemist William Cookworthy established his short-lived
Plymouth Porcelain venture in 1768 to exploit...
