Dorothy Marion Campbell (11 January 1911 in Hedon,

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– 3 October 2005 in

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) was an

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potter. Early in 1954 Marion replied to

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’s advertisement in the ''

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'' for ‘a modeller in clay’ and was invited to work for the Rawson brothers. She worked from home, and took her completed models to Hornsea Pottery on the bus. Her designs for Hornsea, especially the African and Arctic figures, stylised vases, dogs, giraffes and cats are highly prized by collectors. Her 1956 Arctic fox and Weasel vaseWeasel vase
/ref> can be found in the Ceramics Galleries of the

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. She lived in

all her life and died in her 95th year.

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