Rookwood and Potter

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 78497

I've run across a connection between the names Rookwood and Potter. 
It is almost certainly pure coincidence, but it is amusing.

In 1880 Maria Longworth Nichol started an amateur pottery club in 
Cincinnati.  She named it after her father's, Nicholas Longworth's, 
estate, Rookwood.  Eventually it became the Rookwood Pottery Company, 
which survived until 1967.

So Rookwood was a Potter.