Manufacturer of china and earthenware in Burslem and Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent, England. 

• John Hawthorn was previously in partnership with William Nash as Hawthorn & Nash in 1850 at the Regent Street Works, Burslem. Hawthorn appears to have continued at Regent Street until at least 1856.

• In 1854 John Hawthorn established the Albert Street Works, Burslem. Around 1869 the partnership at these works became Wiltshaw, Wood & Co. and in 1877 William Wood & Co. who continued until around 1932.

• At the Regent Street and Albert Street works door, lock, furniture ware, handles and the like were produced. 

• In 1879 Wood & Hawthorne also started operation at the Abbey Pottery in nearby Cobridge. They operated as two businesses 'Wood & Hawthorn' and also 'John Hawthorn', both producing white ironstone ware primarily for the American market. 

• John Hawthorn retired from the partnership in January 1884. 

Albert Street Works. 

"These works were established by Mr. John Hawthorne in 1854, who continued them until 1869, when they were taken by Messrs. Wiltshaw, Wood, & Co., and are now carried on by William Wood & Co. ; they were among the earliest in this branch of trade. 

The goods made are door plates, lock furniture, &c., both in white, black, gilt, and painted ; drawer, shutter, and other knobs in oak, white, black, &c. ; bedstead vases; caster bowls ; umbrella, walking-stick, sewing-machine, closet, and other handles ; ink- stands, bottles, and wells ; highly decorated jam-pots and biscuit-jars for the table ; match-pots ; tea-pot and urn stands of various degrees of decoration, painted, gilt, and enamelled ; and every description of china used by brassfounders, tin-plate workers, japanners, &c. 

Most of these articles are of good quality in body, and excellent glaze and finish, and the colours white, black, ivory, oak, brown, turquoise, green, and blue in which they are produced are clear and effective. 

The only mark used [by Wiltshaw, Wood, & Co.] is W W & Co."

The Ceramic Art of Great Britain - Llewellynn Jewitt, 1878.

The Fern decoration pattern was registered by John Hawthorn at the Abbey Pottery, Cobridge on the 
19th March 1879