J.G.M. Jeffrey, 1898
Possibly a unique mark, on a small wall plaque with an impressed Salopian “diamond” mark.
John George Mowbray Jeffrey, born Manchester 1868. The 1881 census records that he was living with his family at Court Street, Madeley, Shropshire. A student at the Coalbrookdale School of Art, he was awarded a silver medal and the Owen Jones Prize in 1883, and a silver medal and a book prize in 1884. In the 1891 census, he was at Shooting Butt Lane, Madeley, and was working for a decorative tile maker. By 1901 he was married, and was living at Burslem, Staffordshire, where he worked as a tile designer. Ten years later, in 1911, he was an artist designer and manager in a decorative tile business. He died in 1954, at Hereford.
Three examples of his work are known to exist, all of which are plates/plaques with hand-painted designs. Only one of these three designs is painted onto a piece of Salopian Art Pottery.