Arnold Austin

Institutional and Business Connections

Employed at Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd.)
1914 (Circa) - 1947
Listed as a modeller in the Wedgwood 'Roll of Honour' 1914-1919. Described in Reilly and Savage, 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980) as 'modeller at Etruria and Barlaston. He modelled a bust of Josiah Wedgwood taken from the monument in Stoke-on-Trent Church' [summary]. Dates of employment as head modeller at Wedgwood are given in an article in Wedgwood Review, vol. 4, no. 4, Sept. 1967, p. 9 (Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive), as 1927 to 1947. See also in the Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive a photograph of Austin at work in the studio in 1930-1939 (reference no. EWP36) and in c. 1940-1949 on a soup tureen (no. BARLPAB2/12)

Personal and Professional Connections

Mother/father/parent of James A. Austin
Father.

Mother/father/parent of Roy Austin
Son.

Related to A.E. Austin
Probably the same person?

Sources

Great War Roll of Honour, 1914-1919
Unpaged.

The Dictionary of Wedgwood
1980
p. 27.

The Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive
See an article in Wedgwood Review, vol. 4, no. 4, Sept. 1967, p. 9, in the Wedgwood Museum Digital Arcive database, reference no. WWREV4 4/9. See also in this database a number of photographs of Austin at work in the factory.