Richard Ronald John Copeland
- Richard Ronald John Copeland
Richard Ronald John Copeland (1884–1958) was the president and chairman from 1913 of the Spode-Copeland firm of bone china manufacturers in Staffordshire.
Family & Early Life
Copeland was the second son of
Richard Pirie Copeland of Kibblestone Hall, Staffordshire, (High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1902) and grand son of Alderman William Taylor Copeland. He was educated at Harrow school in 1915 and married Ida Fenzi, grand daughter of Sir Douglas Strutt Galton and Great Grand Daughter of Emanuele Fenzi
Accomplishments
* Founded the Children's Orthopædic Hospital, Biddulph;
* Member Council of Art and Industry, 1934-1936;
* Member Committee of Pottery Section, Royal Society of Arts;
* Chairman Executive Committee Stoke-on-Trent Children's Convalescent Home;
* President of the North Staffordshire Boy Scouts' Association;
* Freeman of the City of London;
* Prime Warden of Goldsmiths' Company;
* High Sheriff, Staffs, 1939;
* President Staffordshire Society, 1951
* Donor of the Kibblestone Hall Estate in 1954 to the North Staffordshire Boy Scouts' Association.
External links
* [http://www.spode.co.uk Spode website]
* [http://www.spode.co.uk/History/history_society.html Spode Society]
ources
* Who Was Who 2007 (A&C Black)
* Concise Dictionary of National Biography
* Debrett's
* Staffordshire Past-Track ref 235.
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