Samuel Alcock & Co

Manufacturers of Porcelain, Parian and Earthenware at Cobridge (Aug 1826 - 1853) and at the Hill Pottery, Burslem , Stoke-on-Trent, England (1828- 1859). 

• Samuel Alcock's introduction to the pottery industry began in the early 1820s when he joined an existing partnership, in Cobridge, between Ralph Stevenson and Augustus Aldborough Lloyd Williams. 

• Augustus A. L. Williams left the partnership in August 1826. The partnership between Stevenson & Alcock continued as china manufacturers under the name Samuel Alcock & Co. 

• In 1828 Samuel Alcock was also operating at the rented Hill Top pottery works in nearby Burslem. 

• In 1832, with his nephew Joseph, he brought the pottery works from the Robinson family and extensively rebuilt the works. The front was in a classical style - completed around 1839. The novelist Arnold Bennett called these works "Sytch Pottery" in his Clayhanger novels. 

• 1848 Samuel Alcock died on 10th November 1848. The firm was then run by his wife Elizabeth and two of his sons, Samuel and Thomas, employing up to 700 people until closure due to bankruptcy in 1859. 

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Today Samuel Alcock pieces of Porcelain and Parian and Earthenware are very well sought after and have become rare collectible items.