Earthenware manufacturer at the 'Pearl Pottery' in Brook Street, Hanley, Stoke on Trent, England.

• A business between Frederick Winkle and William Wood had started in 1885 at the Pearl Pottery in Hanley.

• In 1888 Winkle and Wood jointly opened the purpose built Colonial Pottery Works in Whieldon Road on the border of the towns of Stoke and Fenton. 

• There must have been a significant disagreement between the two because in September 1889 this partnership between Winkle and Wood was dissolved (London Gazette, 15 Oct 1889). Frederick Winkle continued on his own at the Colonial Pottery and William Wood continued at the Pearl Pottery works, Hanley with a Mr Bennett (probably George Bennett) as Wood & Bennett.

• The business of Wood & Bennett did not last long. William Wood became bankrupt (London Gazette, 31 Oct 1893) and in July 1892 The Pearl Pottery Company took over the business (A descriptive account of The Potteries, 1893, p.26).