Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet
- Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet
Sir Edmund Harry Elton, 8th Baronet (3 May 1846 - 17 July 1920), was an English inventor and studio potter noted for his production of "Elton Ware" at the "Clevedon Elton Sunflower Pottery".
He was the son of Edmund William Elton and Lucy Maria, daughter of the Revd John Morgan Rice. Lucy Maria died 16 May 1846, shortly after Edmund Harry's birth [ [http://www.e-familytree.net/F77/F77537.htm Edmund William Elton / Lucy Maria Rice ] ] , probably of puerperal sepsis (the main cause of childbirth-related deaths of mothers during the 19th century). [ [http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/bluetelephone/html/health.html Public Health 19th Century ] ] Edmund William married Clementine Sandryk of Florence on 2 December 1859, producing two daughters
#Mina Antoinetta Beatrice (died 21 June 1876) married (17 April 1873) Robert Frederick Boyle (13 June 1841 - 15 May 1883) [ [http://www.maximiliangenealogy.co.uk/maximilia/pafg1285.htm Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg1285 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File ] ]
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Edmund Harry Elton was educated at Bradford College and Jesus College, Cambridge. [ [http://www.clevedon-civic-society.org.uk/laterhis.htm Clevedon Civic Society-Later History ] ]
In 1868 Edmund Harry married his cousin Mary Agnes, second daughter of Sir Arthur Hallam Elton and produced two sons and three daughters - Ambrose born in 1869, Kathleen Agnes Rhoda, Winifred Lucy, Bernard Arthur, and Angela Mary.
He was the nephew of Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, and inherited both Clevedon Court and the title in 1883. (see Elton Baronets)
He donated the town Clock Tower, completed in 1898, to Clevedon, North Somerset, in celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee. [ [http://www.eastmond.net/clview2.html Views of Clevedon - Page 2 ] ]
The ceramic artist William Fishley Holland joined the pottery after the death of Sir Edmund Elton in 1920, and started his own pottery near Clevedon Court on the closing of the Elton pottery in 1922.
External links
* [http://www.clevedon-civic-society.org.uk/laterhis.htm Clevedon Civic Society]
Bibliography
*"Elton Ware Book" - Malcolm Haslam (published by Richard Dennis 1989) DN-5256
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