Apsley Pellatt (27 November 1791 – 17 August 1863) was an English glassware manufacturer and politician.
He was the son of glassware maker
Apsley Pellatt (1763–1826)
Apsley Pellatt (1763 – 21 January 1826) was an English glass manufacturer.
Apsley Pellatt was the son of Apsley Pellatt (1736–1798), of Lewes, Sussex, and of St Margaret's, Westminster, and Sarah, daughter of Thomas Meriton, of Bermondsey, S ...
and Mary (née Maberly) Pellatt.
Glassmaking career
He joined the family
glass-making
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company of Pellatt and Green in 1811. He took over the London-based glass-works on his father's death, renaming it Apsley Pellatt & Co.
His main interest lay in the chemistry of glass-making. In 1819, he took out his first patent for the manufacture of "sulfides" or Cameo Incrustations. Pellatt originally called them "Crystallo-Ceramie," reflecting their French origin. The process involved the embedding of ceramic figurines into the glass sides of paperweights, jugs, decanters, etc., by cutting a hole in the hot glass, sliding in the insert, and resealing the glass afterward.
Pellatt became the most famous and successful producers of sulfides in England from 1819 to the mid-century rivalled only by Baccarat in France. He described their manufacture in a book on glass-making entitled "Curiosities of Glassmaking" published in 1849. After his retirement around 1850, the glass-works went into decline in the hands of his brother Frederic.
Political career
Pellatt was a public-spirited man who for some years served on the Common Council of the
City of London
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. He unsuccessfully contested
Bristol
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at the
1847 general election,
and was elected at the
1852 general election as a
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Southwark
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. He held the seat until his defeat
at the
1857 general election,
and was unsuccessful when he stood again in
1859
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.
He died in
Balham
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in 1863 and was buried at
Staines, where he had lived in later life. He had married twice, firstly in 1814 to Sophronia, daughter of Thomas Kemp; she died in 1815 aged only 23.
He married secondly, in Streatham in 1816, to Margaret Elizabeth, daughter of George Evans, of Balham, with whom he had one son, Apsley (who died young) and four daughters. His second wife died in 1874 and was buried alongside him. His younger brother, Mill Pellatt (1795-1863) was grandfather of Canadian financier Sir
Henry Pellatt
Major general, Major-General Sir Henry Mill Pellatt, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, CVO (January 6, 1859 – March 8, 1939) was a Canadian financier and soldier. He is notable for his role in bringing hydro-electricity to Toronto for the ...
.
[Visitation of England and Wales vol. 9, 1901, ed. Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp, pp. 161-167, Pellatt pedigree]
References
Further reading
* Apsley Pellatt On Glass Making: Publications By Apsley Pellatt Senior And Apsley Pellatt Junior, 1807–1848 by Cable and Pellatt
External links
English Glassmakers*
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1791 births
1863 deaths
Councilmen and Aldermen of the City of London
Glass makers
History of glass
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
UK MPs 1852–1857