Edward Fisher Bodley

Edward Fisher Bodley (1815–1881) was an English businessman, owner of a Staffordshire pottery.

He trained at Highbury College, and ministered at Steeple Bumpstead, Essex, as successor to Ebenezer Temple.

[12] Thomas Richard Diggory, partner for a short time with Bodley, was declared bankrupt in 1872.

[14] He was mayor of Hanley in 1873, and presided over a meeting in 1874 to celebrate the foundation of the Town Mission Hall there.

[15][16] He retired from business in 1875, and his son Edwin James Drew Bodley took over the running of part of the Hill Pottery (from 1882 the Crown Works).

[22] The third son Alfred Joseph Ridgway married in 1883 Mary Eleanor Reade, daughter of Rev.