Herbert Minton
Born 4 February 1793
Died 1 April 1858
Active: 1847 - 1848
Country of birth and death: England
Pottery manufacturer, treasurer of art school
He was the second son of Thomas Minton (1765–1836), engraver and pottery manufacturer. From 1817 he was a partner in the Minton factory.
By the 1840s the Minton factory was producing a range of figures, ornamental ware, and encaustic floor tiles. During the mid- to late 1840s Herbert Minton developed Parian body (named after the Greek island of Paros) for statuary. From 1845 Herbert Minton ran the factory with Michael Daintry Hollins and Colin Minton Campbell. They were granted the royal warrant ‘to be manufacturers of china, earthenware, encaustic and plain tiles and tesserae at Stoke-upon-Trent in ordinary to Her Majesty’ in 1856.
Wealth at death: £70,000 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 23 June 1858
Institutional and Business Connections
Committee member of Hanley School of Art
1847 - 1848 (Presumed)
See Haggar (1953), p. 6.
Committee member of Stoke School of Art
1847 - 1848 (Presumed)
See Haggar (1953), p. 6.
Partner in Minton and Company
1817 - 1858
Partner in Minton Hollins & Co.
1840 (Circa)
Sources
A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
p. 6.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Joan Jones, ‘Minton, Herbert (1793–1858)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18816, accessed 14 Oct 2009]
The Irish Builder, 1901 formerly The Dublin Builder
1901
1 January 1901, p. 588
Citing this record
'Herbert Minton', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1221750011, accessed 28 Sep 2023]
