Malkin, Samuel (17??-1741),

usually signed with his initials only but his identity is known from a dish with his name in full, now in the British Musuem.

The parish register records the burial of a Samuel Malkin, described as the 'old parish clerk of Burslem', a vocation which seems appropriate for a potter who inscribed some of his dishes with proverbial or biblical inscriptions.



 

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