William Worrall

[2] Whereas his elder brother, Thomas, became a blacksmith and painted watercolours as a side interest, William made creativity his paid employment.

The 1891 census shows Worrall living with his mother and siblings in Church, Lancashire, working as an office boy in a cotton mill.

Information about his life during the early 1920s is similarly lacking, but by 1928 he was teaching pottery at the Chalice Well Crafts Guild in Glastonbury, Somerset, which had been founded in 1912 by Alice Buckton.

[13] In 1931, Worrall was invited to demonstrate pottery techniques at the Selfridges department store in London,[14] and featured in an article in the American newspaper, Evening World.

[16][17] He was invited by the Board of Trade to submit items for the 1937 Paris Exhibition, and sent a dish, jug and beer mug for the rural industries section.

The newspaper obituary says that Worrall readily gave gentle counsel to those seeking spiritual guidance, and that it is the results from this work in the hearts of those people 'that is his best and truest memorial'.