Claim: John Doulton completed his apprenticeship as a potter at the Fulham Pottery in England, he was taken into partnership and his 15-year-old son Henry Doulton was taken on as an apprentice.
Evidence: In 1835 John's 15-year-old son Henry Doulton was taken on as an apprentice. In 1815, soon after John Doulton had completed his apprenticeship as a potter at the Fulham Pottery in London, he invested his life savings of £100 in the Vauxhall Walk pottery of Martha Jones, Lambeth. Her foreman, John Watts, was also taken into partnership and the firm became known as Jones, Watts and Doulton. The Fulham Pottery was founded in Fulham, London, by John Dwight in 1672, at the junction of New King's Road and Burlington Road, Fulham, not far from Putney Bridge. England