Jacob Phillips

Jacob Phillips was a London Baptist and deacon at Little Wild Street, London, who purchased, along with a John Bagster, the Church Works in North Staffordshire around 1818. Phillips was later assisted by L.J. Abington, another deacon at Little Wild Street, who had assisted in the decoration of Drury Lane Theatre and the Bank of England. Abington would eventually partner with the Congregationalist Joseph Mayer and two Methodists, William Ridgway and his son, E. J. Ridgway. See John Briggs, ‘Nonconformity and the Pottery Industry’, in Modern Christianity and Cultural Aspirations, ed. by David Bebbington and Timothy Larsen (London/New York: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003), 51.