This was the first bone china, subsequently perfected by Josiah Spode.

His talent and renown picked up gradually and by 1748 he was known to have only taken in nineteen employees, one of whom was Josiah Spode.

Spode was talented and followed the footsteps of Whieldon, but he decided to leave when Whieldon had taken Josiah Wedgwood as a close business partner.

Josiah Spode ( 23 March 1733 – 1797 ) was an English potter and the founder of the English Spode pottery works which became very famous for the quality of its wares.

Josiah Spode I is credited with the introduction of underglaze blue transfer printing into Staffordshire in 1781 – 84.

Josiah and Ellen Spode ( senior ) are buried in Stoke-on-Trent churchyard.

Josiah Spode II ( 1755 – 1827 ) succeeded to the business in 1797.

The second son Samuel Spode, for whom Josiah I erected the Foley factory at Lane End, produced salt-glazed wares up to the end of the eighteenth century.

* Josiah Spode biography, from the Spode Museum.

Chemical analysis of the firing remains showed them to contain high quantities of bone-ash ; thereby pre-dating the claim of Josiah Spode to have invented the bone china process .< ref >< cite >' Industries: Pottery: Bow porcelain ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2: General ; Ashford, East Bedfont with Hatton, Feltham, Hampton with Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton ( 1911 ), pp. 146-50 accessed: 18 November 2006 </ ref > However, more recent investigations of documentary and archaeological evidence suggests the concern was located entirely to the north of the High Street and across the river.

Spode is a Stoke-on-Trent based pottery company that was founded by Josiah Spode ( 1733-1797 ) in 1770.

Josiah Spode earned renown for perfecting under-glaze blue transfer printing in 1783-1784 – a development that led to the launch in 1816 of Spode ’ s Blue Italian range which has remained in production ever since.

Josiah Spode is also often credited with developing a successful formula for fine bone china.

Whether this is true or not, his son, Josiah Spode II, was certainly responsible for the successful marketing of English bone china.

Josiah Spode is known to have worked for Thomas Whieldon from the age of 16 until he was 21.

Josiah Spode I is credited with the introduction of underglaze blue transfer printing on earthenware in 1783-84.

The well-known Spode blue-and-white dinner services with engraved sporting scenes and Italian views were developed under Josiah Spode the younger, but continued to be reproduced into much later times.

Josiah Spode I effectively finalized the formula, and appears to have been doing so between 1789 and 1793.

This was the first bone china, subsequently perfected by Josiah Spode.

In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.

To his Harvard colleague, Josiah Royce, whose philosophic position differed radically from his own, James could write, `` Different as our minds are, yours has nourished mine, as no other social influence ever has, and in converse with you I have always felt that my life was being lived importantly ''.

If the Christian faith fell into ruin in his kingdom, if the clergy were too ignorant to understand the Latin words they butchered in their offices and liturgies, if the ancient monasteries and collegiate churches lay deserted out of indifference, he was answerable before God, as Josiah had been.

Franklin's father, Josiah Franklin was a tallow chandler, a soap-maker and a candle-maker.

Josiah was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, on December 23, 1657, the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith-farmer, and Jane White.

After her death, Josiah was married to Abiah Folger on July 9, 1689, in the Old South Meeting House by Samuel Willard.

Benjamin, their eighth child, was Josiah Franklin's 15th child and tenth and last son.

The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2 – 11, the story of the conquest ; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah ( reigned 640 – 609 BCE ); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.

A major modification to Noth's theory was made in 1973 by the American scholar Frank M. Cross, to the effect that two editions of the history could be distinguished, the first and more important from the court of king Josiah in the late 7th century, and the second Noth's 6th century Exilic history, and other scholars have detected many more authors / editors than either Noth or Cross allowed for.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

The first was the late 7th century Deuteronomistic reform of official Judean religion under king Josiah, who banned many elements of the old polytheistic cult from the Temple, and the sudden collapse of Assyria and the rise of Babylon to take its place ; the second was exile of the royal court, the priests and other members of the ruling elite following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem c. 586 BCE.

Noth argued that the History was the work of a single individual living in the 6th century, but scholars today tend to treat it as made up of at least two layers, a first edition from the time of Josiah ( late 7th century ), promoting Josiah's religious reforms and the need for repentance, and ( 2 ) a second and final edition from the mid 6th century.

According to the information given in the book, Ezekiel ben-Buzi was born into a priestly family of Jerusalem c. 623 BCE, during the reign of the reforming king Josiah.

Josiah was killed in 609 and Judah became a vassal of the new regional power, the Babylonian empire.

Some scholars believe that the picture of Jerusalem which Zephaniah gives indicates that he was active prior to the religious reforms of King Josiah which are described in 2 Kings 23.

.” in 1: 8 as evidence that the kingdom was still ruled by a regent for Josiah.

During Yale's Presidency, a plan for setting up a corporation in Madras was conceived by Josiah Child, the President of the Board of Directors of the East India Company, in a letter addressed to the factors at Madras on September 28, 1687.

Three months later, Josiah Child and his deputy had an audience with James II, and as per the ensuing discussions, a Charter was issued by the king on December 30, 1687 which established the Corporation of Madras.

Excerpt from Josiah King's The Examination and Tryal of Father Christmas ( 1686 ), published shortly after Christmas was reinstated as a holy day in England.

Judah at this time was a vassal of Assyria, but Assyrian power collapsed in the 630s, and in around 622 Josiah and the Deuteronomists, as the circle around him are called by modern scholars, launched a bid for independence expressed as loyalty to " Yahweh alone " and the law-code in the book of Deuteronomy, written in the form of a treaty between Judah and Yahweh to replace the vassal-treaty with Assyria.

The sons of Montgolfier obtained an English patent for an improved version in 1816, and this was acquired, together with Whitehurst's design, in 1820 by Josiah Easton, a Somerset-born engineer who had just moved to London.

According to, while Jeroboam was engaged in offering incense at Bethel, a " man of God " warned him that " a son named Josiah will be born to the house of David " who would destroy the altar ( referring to King Josiah of Judah who would rule approximately three hundred years later ).

* Sir Josiah Mason, an English pen-manufacturer, was born in Mill Street on 23 February 1795.

Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez ( born August 3, 1940 ), better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American film actor best known for his performance as President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing ( 1999 – 2006 ).

* Josiah was born about 1633 and died in Preston CT on March 19, 1690.

* Josiah Gardner Abbott ( 1814 – 1891 ), born in Chelmsford, member of the United States House of Representatives, the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Massachusetts Senate

Their house became a haven for all manner of visitors, mostly writers such as Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, but also the military leader Duke of Wellington and industrialist Josiah Wedgwood ; aristocratic novelist Caroline Lamb, who was born a Ponsonby, came to visit, too.

* Josiah M. Anderson — born near Pikeville, United States Congressman from Tennessee

Josiah Bartlett was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, to Stephen and Hannah-Mary ( Webster ) Bartlett.

He was born in Dublin, the great-grandson of Josiah Hort, Archbishop of Tuam in the eighteenth century.

Boydell was born, according to his monument in St Olave Old Jewry, London, at Dorrington, in the parish of Woore, Shropshire, to Josiah and Mary Boydell ( née Milnes ) and was educated at least partially at Merchant Taylors ' School.

* Josiah Bunting III ( born 1939 ), American educator

Josiah Henson was born on a farm near Port Tobacco in Charles County, Maryland.

La Follette was born in a log cabin in the Town of Primrose, Wisconsin, just outside New Glarus, to Josiah La Follette and Mary Ferguson ( widow of Alexander Buchanan ).

Willard was born to Josiah Flint Willard and Mary Thompson Hill Willard in Churchville, near Rochester, New York, but spent most of her childhood in Janesville, Wisconsin.

Edward Whymper was born in London, England on 27 April 1840 to Josiah Wood Whymper and Elizabeth Claridge.

* November 18 – John Josiah Robinette, lawyer ( born 1906 )

Josiah Robins " Jo " Bonner, Jr. ( born November 19, 1959 ), is the U. S. Representative for, having served since 2003.

Bonner was born in Selma, Alabama ( but was reared in Camden, Alabama ), to Josiah Robins Bonner, Sr., and the former Imogene Virginia Lyons.

Sir Ivor Bertie Guest was born at Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydfil, the son of Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion, and Sir John Josiah Guest, owner of the world's largest iron foundry: Dowlais Ironworks.

Cady was the son of Josiah Cady and his wife Lydia, of Providence, Rhode Island, where he was born.

Josiah had four sons: Johanan, Eliakim ( born c. 634 BC ) by Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah, Mattanyahu ( c. 618 BC ) and Shallum ( 633 / 632 BC ) both by Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.