Richard Chaffers

Richard Chaffers (1731 – 8 December 1765)[1][2] was a pottery manufacturer in Liverpool, England.

Chaffers, son of a shipwright in Liverpool, started in business at Shaw's Brow in 1752.

He produced blue and white porcelain, mainly for export to the American colonies.

[1][2] In 1755 Robert Podmore, a potter from the porcelain factory in Worcester, showed him and his business partner Philip Christian how to make porcelain using soapstone, discovered in Mullion Cove in Cornwall; Chaffers subsequently became a rival to Josiah Wedgwood.

[3] Chaffers died in 1765, and was buried at the Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, Liverpool.