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Born 4 March 1808 London Title First Marquess of Pickman Spouse(s) María Josefa Pickman y Martínez de la Vega Children Enriqueta Pickman y Pickman
Adelaida Pickman y Pickman Died 4 June 1883, Seville, Spain Parents Susannah Hart Jones, Richard Pickman | ||
Charles Pickman Jones (London, 4 March 1808-† Seville, 4th of June 1883), Hispanicized as Carlos Pickman, founded a ceramics factory in the old Monastery of the Cartuja (Charterhouse) in Seville and was titled Marquess of Pickman by Amadeo I of Spain.
Biography
He was the son of a respected English merchant, Richard Pickman. Richard was born in Wallingford in 1763 and died in 1838 in Liverpool. He traded glassware and ceramics from the Potter County of Staffordshire with China and had commercial headquarters in the port cities of London and Liverpool. He got married to Susannah Jones, who was from Farmborg Hall, London.
His son, William Pickman Hicks, moved to Cadiz in 1810 to trade in the city with these products but died in 1822 without having much success. In 1822 William's half-brother, Charles Pickman, moved to Seville to continue with the business. He partnered with the widow of William and opened his shop in "calle Gallegos". Charles married William's daughter, Maria Josefa Pickman y Martinez de la Vega. He started a project in 1837 with his brother-in-law, Guillermo Aponte y Martinez de la Vega, to found a ceramics factory.
After the ecclesiastical confiscations of Mendizabal, he leased the Carthusian Monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas (which was empty) with the intention of starting his ceramics manufacturing business just as his father had done in England. The brand of ceramics Pickman took its name from Charles's last name and the name of the monastery: la Cartuja de Sevilla-Pickman.
The business flourished, and the ceramics factory became one of the most well known in Europe. He also managed to trade with countries in Latin American.
Thanks to his social and commercial relations, he came to be elected Royal Commissioner of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce in the province of Seville and Vice President of the National Agricultural Academy, Manufacturing, and Commerce of Paris.
In 1871, the King Amadeo I of Spain appointed his factory as the supplier to the Royal House. In February 1873, during the reign of that monarch, he received the noble title of Marquess of Pickman for his entrepreneurial activity.