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THE DOULTON FAMILY*

Doulton family tree

John Doulton (I)

John Doulton (I) was born in 1794 in Fulham, Middlesex. He married Jane Duneau (date uncertain) and the couple had eight children, the eldest, John Doulton II, was born in 1819 and the second son, Henry Doulton (later Sir Henry Doulton), in 1820.

John Doulton b. 1819, d. 1862

Henry Doulton b. 1820, d. 1897

Frederick Doulton b. 1826

Jane Doulton b. 1826

Alfred Doulton b. 1827

Mary Ann Doulton b. 1830

Jacob Doulton b. 1832

James Duneau Doulton b. 1835

The Doulton family lived at 20 High St, Lambeth from at least the 1840s. There is no mention of Jane Duneau as a member of the household in the 1841 or later census leading to the presumption of her relatively early death. John Doulton (I) died in May 1873 at Springwell Cottage, Clapham Common, and the executors of his substantial (circa £80,000) estate were his sons Henry Doulton and James Duneau Doulton, and Virgoe Buckland, the husband of Mary Ann Doulton.

John Doulton (II)

John Doulton (II) was born in 1819, the first child of John (I) and Jane Duneau. ‘John Doulton, 21, potter’ is listed as living with his father at Lambeth in the 1841 census, but his marriage to Mary Mathieson must have followed shortly because his first child, John (III) was born in 1845 at Camberwell, Surrey. John and Mary Doulton had a further six children, Keith (b.1849), Mary (b.1850), Ronald Duneau Doulton (b. 1852), Bernard (b.1855), Jane (b.1855) and Allan (b.1860).

John Doulton (II) died on 23rd February 1862 at the relatively young age of 43.

Henry Doulton

Henry Doulton was born on 25th July 1820. He married Sarah Kennerby in 1849 and their three children were Sarah Lillian Doulton, Henry Lewis Doulton, and Katherine Duneau Doulton.

Sarah Lillian Doulton b. 1852

Henry Lewis Doulton b. 1853

Katherine D. Doulton b. 1857

Sir Henry Doulton, of 10 Queens Lane, Kensington, died on 17th December 1897 and was buried at the Norwood Cemetery, Lambeth, Surrey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DESCENDENTS OF HENRY DOULTON WHO WERE PARTNERS OF DIRECTORS OF THE FAMILY COMPANY 1854-2005

Henry Lewis Doulton

Henry Lewis Doulton (b. 1853), Henry Doulton’s only son married a Jessie Maria White, however, the couple had no children. Henry Lewis Doulton assumed the positions of Managing Director and became the first Chairman of Doulton & Co. Ltd on the company’s incorporation in 1899, only ceding the position of Managing Director to his nephew Lewis John Eric Hooper in 1919, and that of Chairman (also to Lewis Hooper) on his retirement in 1925. Henry Lewis Doulton died in November 1930.

Lewis John Eric Hooper

Lewis John Eric Hooper (b. 1879) was the son of Sarah Doulton and John Kinnersley Hooper and was to play a major role in the later management of Doulton & Co. Ltd.

He joined the family business in 1902, becoming Managing Director in 1919, and Chairman in 1925 on the retirement of his uncle Henry Lewis Doulton. Hooper remained Chairman for 30 years, retiring in 1955.

The only child of Lewis John Eric Hooper, John Doulton Hooper, died in childhood.

Ronald Duneau Doulton (and descendents)

Ronald Duneau Doulton, the third son of Henry Doulton’s elder brother John II (and a cousin of Henry Lewis Doulton) also played a role in the management of the company and was a Director from the date of incorporation of the business in 1899.

Ronald Duneau Doulton married Agnes Margaret Farquhar and the couple had six (eight?) children. He died on the 5th September 1929.

His second son, Orrok Mills Doulton (b. 1880) (later Sir Orrok Doulton) worked in the business before serving as a cavalry officer in the First World War. He died, reputedly of Spanish Influenza, but probably of war wounds, in 1922 shortly after the end of the war.

Orrok Mills Doulton married Catherine May Duke and of five children, the second son Michael Duke Doulton, an RAF pilot, died on 31st August 1940 when his Hurricane fighter was shot down over the Thames Estuary during the Battle of Britain. Orrok Sherwood Doulton, the third son (b. 1916) worked in the family business all of his life, becoming Director of the company in 1935. Orrok Sherwood Doulton died in 1977.

Sherwood Doulton’s two sons, Michael Doulton and Mark Doulton also worked for the Doulton companies, and Michael Doulton continues (2011) as a ‘Brand Ambassador’ for the Doulton brand under its new owners WWRD Holdings Ltd.

Although the Doulton business was restructured from 1st January 1956, Doulton & Co. Ltd probably continued as a private, family-controlled holding company up to the merger with Allied English Potteries in November 1971

 

© Mike Perry 2011

In assembling the information presented here, the assistance of Daniel Doulton www.doulton.org and Robert Christie Collman is gratefully acknowledged