Details

Name

Edmund Harry Elton

Brief Biography

1846-1920, English

Occupation

Potter

Description

Sir Edmund Harry Elton, 8th Baronet 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. He married Clementine Sandryk of Florence on 2 December 1859, producing two daughters.

In 1868 Edmund Harry married his cousin Mary Agnes, second daughter of Sir Arthur Hallam Elton and produced two sons and three daughters.

Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet was his uncle, and as a result Edmund inherited both Clevedon Court and the title in 1883. He donated the town Clock Tower, completed in 1898, to Clevedon, North Somerset, in celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee.

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.