George Wade (pottery manufacturer)

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name = George Albert Wade

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birth_place = Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
death_date = death date and age|1986|01|27|1891|07|19|df=y
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known_for = Wade Ceramics
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spouse = Florrie Johnson
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George Albert Wade (19 July 1891 - 27 January 1986), born in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England to a family who ran a pottery business. He was knighted in 1955 for political and public services.cite web
url = http://www.thepotteries.org/people/wade_geo.htm
title = People of Stoke-on-Trent: George Wade |date = 2005-11-15
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publisher = thepotteries.org
accessdaymonth = 22 October|accessyear = 2007]

Sir George was a pupil at Newcastle High School, which has been amalgamated into the Newcastle-under-Lyme School, and left at age 15 to work at the families pottery factory. He was a soldier between 1914 and 1919 in World War I, first as a private with the North Staffordshire Regiment, and then as a lieutenant with the South Staffordshire Regiment in the Machine Gun Corps, and he served in France and Egypt. He Married Florrie Johnson in 1915.

Sir George became chairman of the families pottery business, Wade Ceramics Ltd, a manufacturer of porcelain and earthenware, whose main factory was in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.cite web
url = http://www.wade.co.uk/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
title = Welcome to Wade Ceramics Ltd |date =
author = Edward Duke
publisher = Wade Ceramics Ltd
accessdaymonth = 22 October|accessyear = 2007] In the 1950s, Sir George and the Wade potteries created and manufactured "Whimsies", small cheap solid porcelain animal figures, which became popular and collectible in Britain and America.

Sir George never fully stopped working, but in the early 1980s he gave the routine running of the business to his son George Anthony (Tony) Johnson Wade. His hobbies included painting and ornithology.

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NAME= Wade, George Albert
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Ran Wade Ceramics, a pottery business. Knighted.
DATE OF BIRTH= 19 July 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH= Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
DATE OF DEATH= 27 January 1986
PLACE OF DEATH= England