Sir Edmund Harry Elton, 8th Baronet (3 May 1846 – 17 July 1920) was an English inventor and studio potter noted for his production of

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at the Clevedon Elton Sunflower Pottery. He was the son of the painter Edmund William Elton and Lucy Maria, daughter of the Rev. John Morgan Rice. Lucy Maria died 16 May 1846, shortly after Edmund Harry's birth. Edmund William then married Clementine Sandryk of

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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) # Alma Marion Edmund Harry Elton was educated at

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and

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. 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 Sir Arthur Hallam Elton, 7th Baronet Deputy Lieutenant, DL (19 April 1818 – 14 October 1883) was a writer and Liberal party (UK), Liberal party politician in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was the son of Sir Charles Abraha ...

, and inherited both

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and the title in 1883 (see

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). He was Major and Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Gloucestershire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) until he reigned his commission in May 1902. He donated the town

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, completed in 1898, to

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, in celebration of

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's Jubilee.Views of Clevedon – Page 2
He was appointed

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in 1895. 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. Elton's daughter Kathleen married Guy Molesworth Kindersley and was the mother of

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, the stone

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and

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designer.

Bibliography

* ''Elton Ware Book'' – Malcolm Haslam (published by Richard Dennis 1989) DN-5256

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1846 births 1920 deaths English potters Ceramics manufacturers of England Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain Art pottery Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge High sheriffs of Somerset People from Clevedon Royal Garrison Artillery officers 19th-century British Army personnel 20th-century British Army personnel {{GreatBritain-baronet-stub

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