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The development of William Weston Young’s interests in ceramics with Lewis Dillwyn, decoration and manufacture of pottery and porcelain, his support of the efforts of Billingsley and Walker at the Nantgarw China Works, his association with Thomas Pardoe, other ventures, and finally his creation of the Dinas refractory brick.
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Edwards, H.G.M. (2019). William Weston Young: His Life. In: Porcelain to Silica Bricks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10573-0_2
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