George Woolliscroft Rhead Senior
Other names: also given as George Wooliscroft
Born 17 January 1832 (Probable)
Died 23 September 1908
Active: 1849 - 1900
Country of birth and death: England
Pottery painter, teacher, headmaster of art school
Born in Stoke Saint Milborough, Shropshire. His father was George Rhead (born c.1811), potter and pottery painter and his mother was Mary Woolliscroft (born c.1808). George Woolliscroft Rhead Senior started his career as a pottery painter and then moved into teaching. By the late 1880s he had left the pottery industry and was headmaster of Fenton School of Art. Several of his children entered the pottery trade and the oldest son, George Woolliscroft Rhead Junior (see separate entry) became an artist. Rhead Senior retired from teaching before 1900 and died at Laburnum Cottage, Clayton, Staffordshire.
This record includes information submitted by a great-great-great-nephew of Rhead, Christian NK Phillips-Gunter.
Wealth at death: £1,918 19s. 1d.
Probate date: 10 October 1908
Locations
Address Old Stoke Lane Stoke-on-Trent | View on map
1851 (Circa)
Address Albert Street Newcastle-under-Lyme | View on map
1861 (Circa)
Address Stoke Old Road Stoke-on-Trent | View on map
1881 (Circa)
Institutional and Business Connections
Assistant principal of Newcastle School of Art
1869 (Circa) - 1879 (Circa)
See Haggar, 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged.
Principal of Fenton School of Art
1889 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 29.
Studied at Stoke School of Art
1849 (Circa) - 1857 (Circa)
See Haggar, 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged.
Studied at Newcastle School of Art
1857 (Circa) - 1869 (Circa)
See Haggar, 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged.
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
'Potters China Painter'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
'China Gilder - and Pupil Teacher in School of Art'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
'China Heraldic Painter'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'(Potter) Art Teacher and Designer'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Art Teacher'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Retired Art, Art Master'
Sources
A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
pp. 28-29.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841
2004
HO107 piece 991 folio 12/27 page 2
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
2004
HO107 piece 2006 folio 220 page 56
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
2004
RG09 piece 1917 folio 119 page 20
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
RG10 piece 2870 folio 110 page 35
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
RG11 piece 2729 folio 43 page 31
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
RG12 piece 2176 folio 103 page 23
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
RG13 piece 2581 folio 99 page 5
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: George Wooliscroft Rhead
Probate Date: 10 Oct 1908
Death Date: 23 Sep 1908
Death Place: Staffordshire, England
Registry: Lichfield
People and the Potteries. A Dictionary of Local Biography Volume 1
1985
p. 177.
Citing this record
'George Woolliscroft Rhead Senior', 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_1222092863, accessed 01 Apr 2023]
