William Cookworthy
British pharmacist
Died when: 75 years 188 days (906 months)Star Sign: Aries
William Cookworthy (12 April 1705 – 17 October 1780) was an English Quaker minister, a successful pharmacist and an innovator in several fields of technology.
He was the first person in Britain to discover how to make hard-paste porcelain, like that imported from China.He subsequently discovered china clay in Cornwall.
In 1768 he founded a works at Plymouth for the production of Plymouth porcelain; in 1770 he moved the factory to Bristol, to become Bristol porcelain, before selling it to a partner in 1773.
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