Miles Mason

{{short description|British businessman (1752–1822)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Miles Mason''' (1752–1822) was a chinaman in Fenchurch Street who sold imported porcelain from China. When these imports ceased, he developed a successful replacement – ironstone china – which was then exported to other countries.{{sfn|Roberts|Godden|1996|p=foreword}}{{sfn|Coutts|2001|p=153}}{{sfn|Nichols|1822}}

==References== '''Notes''' {{notes}} '''Citations''' {{reflist}} '''Sources''' {{refbegin}} *{{citation |title=Mason's, The First Two Hundred Years |last1=Roberts |first1=Gaye |last2=Godden |first2=Geoffrey |publisher=Merrell Holberton |year=1996}} *{{citation |title=The Art of Ceramics: European Ceramic Design, 1500-1830 | last=Coutts |first=Howard |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2001 |isbn=9780300083873 |chapter=Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century Britain}} *{{citation |title=Mr. Miles Mason |journal=The Gentleman's Magazine |volume=131 |year=1822|pages=474–475 |last=Nichols |first=John}} {{refend}}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mason, Miles}} Category:English potters Category:British businesspeople in retailing Category:1752 births Category:1822 deaths

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