William Duesbury II

William Duesbury II
Born	1763
Died	1796
Nationality	British
Known for	Pottery

William Duesbury (1763–1796), was a son of William Duesbury (1725–1786) and the prosperity of the family pottery works Royal Crown Derby reached its highest point shortly after he succeeded to them. He took into partnership an Irish miniature-painter Michael Kean. Duesbury's health broke up early, and he died in 1796.

By his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William Edwards, a solicitor of Derby (who remarried the above-mentioned Kean), he left three sons, of whom William Duesbury, born in 1787, inherited, but did not take part in the works, which in 1809 were disposed of to Robert Bloor. The second son, Frederick Duesbury, became a well-known physician in London, and was father of the architect Henry Duesbury.

These references are found in the DNB article referred to above.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cust, Lionel Henry (1888). "". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography. 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 125. 

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