William Cookworthy (12 April 1705 – 17 October 1780) was an English Quaker minister, a successful pharmacist and an innovator in several fields of technology...

Kingsbridge Town Hall building, and a museum devoted to the chemist William Cookworthy who was born in the town in 1705. There are two supermarkets in Kingsbridge:...

G. H.; William COOKWORTHY; George HARRISON (of Lancashire.) (1854). Memoir of William Cookworth, formerly of Plymouth, Devonshire. William & Frederick...

porcelain, which operated until 1835. The Plymouth factory was founded by William Cookworthy. The porcelain factories at Plymouth and Bristol were among the earliest...

first mineralogical map of France to the French Academy of Sciences. William Cookworthy discovers kaolin in Cornwall. Jean le Rond d'Alembert develops the...

potter, making Bristol porcelain, was working with a chemist, William Cookworthy. Cookworthy began a search for good quality cobalt oxide to give the blue...

2nd Baronet (d. 1765) April 9 – Nathan Webb (d. 1772) April 12 – William Cookworthy, English Quaker minister (d. 1780) April 19 – Claes Grill, Swedish...

kilometres (3.7 mi) west of the town of Helston. The Plymouth chemist William Cookworthy mixed china stone with kaolin, mined from the hill to make Plymouth...

Theatre Royal and Royal Hotel, and much of Union Street. Local chemist William Cookworthy established his short-lived Plymouth Porcelain venture in 1768 to...

Monceau's Traité des arbres fruitiers is published in Paris. March 17 – William Cookworthy is granted a patent for the manufacture of porcelain from kaolinite...