Colonel Sir George Albert Wade (19 July 1891 – 27 January 1986) was an English pottery manufacturer.
Born in Burslem to a family who ran a pottery business, he was knighted in 1955 for political and public services.
[1] He was a soldier between 1914 and 1919 in World War I, first as a private with the North Staffordshire Regiment, and then as a lieutenant with the South Staffordshire Regiment in the Machine Gun Corps, and he served in France and Egypt.
[2] In the 1950s, Wade Ceramics created and manufactured "Whimsies", small cheap solid porcelain animal figures, which became popular and collectable in Britain and America.
[2] Wade never fully stopped working, but in the early 1980s, he gave the routine running of the business to his son George Anthony (Tony) Johnson Wade.