Editing Josiah Spode (section)

== Successors ==
'''Josiah Spode II''' (1755–1827), Josiah's elder son, succeeded to the business in 1797. He was magnificently prepared for the role, an experienced salesman as well as a potter, having gained an invaluable knowledge of marketing in fashionable London. He was active in the North Staffordshire Pitt Club and entered politics.<ref name = Hayden105>Hayden 1925, 105–112.</ref> In 1798 he raised and with the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] commanded the [[Loyal Pottery Volunteer Cavalry]], the mounted division of the Loyal Staffordshire Pottery Association of [[Hanley]], Shelton and Stoke, affiliated to the [[Staffordshire Yeomanry]], until it was stood down at the [[Treaty of Amiens|Peace of Amiens]] in 1802.<ref name = Hayden105/><ref>[https://archive.org/details/recordsqueensow01websgoog/page/n8/mode/2up?view=theater Capt P.C.G. Webster, ''The Records of the Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry'', Lichfield: Lomax, 1870, pp. 13–23.]</ref> He was granted a coat-of-arms in 1804. In 1811, with James Caldwell of Linley Wood, he successfully opposed a move by government to impose taxation on the work of the Potteries.<ref name = Hayden105/>
[[File:Spode family tombs.jpg|thumb|Spode family tombs.]]
Josiah II, who was a [[flautist]], was father of Josiah III (1777), and grandfather of Josiah IV, a convert to Roman Catholicism, who founded [[Hawkesyard Priory]] near [[Rugeley]].<ref>Hayden 1925, 19.</ref> His daughter Sabia married George Whieldon at Stoke in 1809.

'''Samuel Spode''' (born 1757), Josiah I's second son, inherited the Foley factory which his father had built for him at [[Longton, Staffordshire|Lane End]],<ref>For the absorption of Lane End into the expanding settlement of Longton, see [http://www.thepotteries.org/location/districts/lane_end.htm this account]. See also [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53377 'Longton', ''A History of the County of Stafford'' (V.C.H.) 8 (1963), pp. 224–246.]</ref> which produced [[salt glaze pottery|salt-glazed]] wares up to the end of the eighteenth century. Josiah Spode (born 1790), the son of Samuel and his wife Sarah, emigrated to [[Tasmania]] where he held a position as Controller of Convicts.

After several generations under the guidance of the Copeland family, the [[Spode]] name is now owned by the [[Portmeirion pottery]] company,<ref>{{cite web |title=Portmeirion buys Spode for bargain £3.2 million |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/business/portmeirion-buys-spode-for-bargain-ps3-2-million-6716104.html |website=Evening Standard |date=11 April 2012 |publisher=Independent |access-date=11 April 2012}}</ref> which now produces some of the former Spode patterns.