“The members of this firm, namely, Mr. John Stanway, Mrs. Thomas Horne (Mr. Stanway’s sister), and Mr. Thomas Adams,” writes my good friend Mr. Goss, “are all natives of Etruria, where their grandfathers were the valued servants of the great Josiah Wedgwood. Mr. Stanway’s father was the William Stanway mentioned by Mr. Jewitt in his ‘Life of Josiah Wedgwood,’ as one of the ‘Etruria Jubilee Group of Francis Wedgwood, Esq., and nine workmen, whose average term of servitude is fifty-four and a half years, November, 1859;’ and Mr. Jewitt further remarks: ‘It is interesting to note that in the person of one of these men, William Stanway, an absolute link with the great Josiah is kept up. This man began to work at Etruria the very year of Josiah Wedgwood’s death (1795), and has remained there ever since--a period of sixty-nine years.’ Two others of the nine workmen of the Jubilee Group--William Adams and John Adams--were uncles to Mr. Thomas Adams of the above firm. Mr. John Stanway has distinct recollections of his grandfather, John Stanway the elder, who for many years served the first Josiah, and died in the service of the second. His occupation at the works was that of “slipmaker” or claymaker, a position of great trust at that time, when not only the newly-invented proportions but the very materials used in the composition of the clays were important secrets. It is curious to reflect that the ingredients of all the famous jasper and other wares which the great Wedgwood produced, and which are now numbered among the treasures of kings and emperors, were blended and made into clay by this John Stanway the elder. Being proved a faithful servant, he was greatly valued and favoured by his employer, spending a portion of his time in personally waiting upon Wedgwood at Etruria Hall, whence he used to carry valuable parcels and letters to the Three Tuns Inn at Newcastle-under-Lyme, which was in those days the stage coach house. After the death of Wedgwood, John Stanway retained the same share of the confidence and favour of the second Josiah, both at the manufactory and at the Hall. At that time the country where Etruria now stands, and for miles around, was an uncultivated waste, and Mr. Stanway remembers to have accompanied his grandfather many times when he trudged along the road from Etruria Hall to Newcastle, with his parcels on his back, and his dog Driver and his cat Molley following him all the way, a distance of about two miles. In these journeys it appeared to be distinctly understood between the two animals that Driver was Molley’s protector, and the confidence of the latter was always justified in the moment of danger. In those days old Stoke Church (since removed) was the only church for miles around, and the Wedgwoods had their freehold pew there, which they regularly used until the second Josiah bought the Maer estate, near Whitmore, and removed to it from Etruria Hall. ‘Then,’ relates Mr. John Stanway the younger, ‘Mr.