American Toby Jug Museum 

Edmund Leigh figural pitcher modeled by Ernest T. Bailey and produced by Burgess & Leigh of Burslem, England, in 1954 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. Son of Burgess & Leigh founder William Leigh, Edmund Leigh (1854-1924), along with Richard Burgess, assumed control of the pottery after his father's death and played a leading part in the design and equipment of a new factory. He travelled extensively in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and was responsible for establishing a substantial trade in these countries. Richard Burgess died in 1912, and Edmund Leigh acquired the whole pottery, which became a private limited company in 1919, the first directors being Edmund Leigh and his three sons, William Henry, Arthur Kingsley and Edmund Denis. In his later years Edmund Leigh took an active part in promoting the formation of the British Pottery Manufacturers Federation. Edmund Leigh died in 1924, but his sons continued the policy of developing the company's export trade.