Reginald George Haggar


Reginald George Haggar, R.I., A.R.C.A., F.R.S.A., was a British ceramic designer. He was born in Ipswich and studied at the Ipswich School of Art and the Royal College of Art. In 1929, he became an assistant designer at Mintons Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, rising to art director six months later, a post he held until 1939. Working in watercolors and ceramics, his designs reflected both the radical and lyrical elements of the Art Deco style.
After leaving Mintons, he became master-in-charge of the Stoke School of Art in 1941 and then of the Burslem School of Art until
1945.
Thereafter, he was a freelance artist and lecturer in the Potteries area. He painted many pictures of the North Staffordshire area. An annual ceramics lecture has been held in his memory each year called the Reginald Haggar Memorial Lecture, given these days at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.

Publications

Recent ceramic sculpture in Great Britain, J. Tiranti ltd, 1946English Pottery Figures, 1660-1860, J. Tiranti, 1947A new guide to old pottery: English country pottery, M. M. McBride, 1950English Country Pottery, Phoenix House, 1950The Masons of Lane Delph and the origin of Masons patent ironstone, Printed for G.L. Ashworth & Bros. by P.L. Humphries, 1952Staffordshire chimney ornaments, Phoenix House, 1955Pottery Through the Ages, Roy Publishers, 1959Sculpture through the ages, London: Methuen, 1960Glass and glassmakers, London: Methuen, 1961A dictionary of art terms: painting, sculpture, architecture, Oldbourne Press, 1962The Concise Encyclopedia of Continental Pottery and Porcelain, Praeger, 1968