Norman Wilson
Born 1902
Active: 1927 - 1962
Potter, director
Institutional and Business Connections
Employed at Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd.)
1927 (Circa) - 1962
Became Works Manager at Etruria in 1927, Production Director in 1946 and joint Managing Director in 1961: see Reilly and Savage, 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980), p. 390.
Retired from his 'executive duties' in 1962: see 'Wedgwood Review', vol. 2, no. 10, March 1963, p. 8. This article 'Au Revoir: not goodbye' states that Wilson joined the Etruria factory in 1927 at the age of 25 and that 'a few years later he became general manager and in 1936, with Mr Josiah and the late Mr Tom Wedgwood, planned and built the present factory at Barlaston. He served in the Second World War in the Royal Artillery and returned in 1946 as Production Director [summary].
Sources
The Dictionary of Wedgwood
1980
p. 390.
The Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive
See the many records in this archive of Wilson's three photograph albums of the Wedgwood factories and works (vol. 1 c. 1930-1939, vol. 2 1939, vol. 3 1940), photographs of the artist, reviews etc.
Citing this record
'Norman Wilson', 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_1237560414, accessed 08 Jun 2023]
