Pountneys (The Bristol Pottery)

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John Decimus Pountney was born on 15th April 1789, the tenth child (hence the Decimus) of the surgeon William Pountney.  William practiced at Henbury, Gloucestershire, from 1775 until his death in 1804, and had attended the wife of Richard Champion during the birth of her last two children.  John married Susanna Fisher,  who died on 13th September 1842.  He married his second wife, Charlotte Willis, on 29th June 1844.  Their third child (of four) was William Joseph, the ceramic historian.  John died in December 1852 and was buried at Henbury. Charlotte died on 4th July 1872 and was also buried at Henbury. He was Lord Mayor of Bristol in 1847 (the picture shows him waring the chain of office), the same year he was also president of the Gloucestershire Society.  In 1850 he is recorded as a trustee of the National Provincial Permanent Benefit Building Society.  According to W J Pountney he lived in a large house at Portland Square, however the 1851 census records him at 9 Richmond Hill, Clifton. The Bristol pottery, from a photograph taken around 1860.