SIR G

See also:

• SIR G STOKES
• STOKES, SIR GEORGE GABRIEL, BART
• STOKES, WHITLEY (1830-1909)

STOKES  . G . 951 entered into partnership with the Copelands, who continued his business . Herbert Minton (1793—1858) was the founder of another of the large works . The parliamentary borough returns one member . In the Domesday Survey of Io86 half the church of Stoke and lands in Stoca are said to have belonged to Robert of Stafford . Part of Stoke (Stoche or Stoca) at this time belonged to the Crown, since the royal estate of Penculla (now Penkhull) was included within its bounds . Frequent references to the parish church of Stoke are found during the 14th and 15th centuries . Contemporary writers from 1787 onwards describe Stoke as a market town, but the official evidence states that the market rights were not acquired until 1845 . Since then the market days have been Saturday and Monday . Stoke-upon-Trent became the railway centre and' head of the parliamentary borough of Stoke-upon-Trent, comprising the whole of the Staffordshire Potteries, which was created by the Reform Bill of 1832 . In 1894 it was incorporated as a municipality .

From 1833 to 1885 Stoke returned two members to

parliament . From the early 17th century, if not earlier, porcelain and earthenware manufactories existed at Stoke-upon-Trent, but they remained unnoticed until in 1686 Dr Plot wrote his survey of Stafford-shire . In the middle of the 18th century there was a great industrial development in the Pottery district . See John Ward, The Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent (London, 1843) .