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sermon delivered before tlie justices of tlie peace by 

 tbe Rev. L. Booker, LL.D., was one of these. Mr. 

 Turner carried on tbe now famous Caugbley works, 

 wbere be succeeded in producing, by means of 

 English and French workmen, china of superior 

 merit, which, like the old Wedgwood productions, 

 is now highly prized by connoisseurs. He was the 

 first producer of the " willow pattern," still so much 

 in demand, and his general knowledge gave him 

 great influence. The Squire paid occasional visits 

 to his elegant chateau at Caughley, and gave him 

 one of the two portraits of hirgself which he had 

 painted, a picture now in possession of the widow of 

 Mr. Turner's son, George, of Scarborough, in which 

 the Squire is represented — as in our engraving — in 

 his scarlet hunting coat, with a fox's brush in his 

 hand — a facsimile of the one from which our 

 woodcut is taken. Another, but only an occa- 

 sional visitor at the Hall, was John "V^^ilkinson, "the 

 Father of the Iron Trade," as he is now called, who 

 then lived at Broseley, and who was one of the most 

 remarkable men of the past century. He was for 

 some years a tenant of the Squire, and carried on 

 the Willey furnaces. He was • also a friend of 

 Boulton and Watt, and was the first who succeeded 



