Master potter, the son of the Rev. Thomas Pinder (e.m. 1799; d. 1835). He was educated at Woodhouse Grove School 1822-1827 and became a master potter in Burslem, in partnership at different times with Joseph Harvey Bourne and John Hope, a school contemporary, at their Swan Bank and Nile Street works (the latter taken over in 1878 by Doultons). The firm's products included china, terra-cotta wares, domestic earthenwares, jet wares, jardinieres with skilfully painted birds, flowers etc., and sanitary goods. It received medals at the London and Paris Exhibitions of 1851, 1855 and 1867. In 1863 the firm employed John Lockwood Kipling as a designer. The Pinder family were prominent members at and benefactors of Swan Bank WM chapel. Thomas Pinder junior died on 25 June 1867.
'Two who were pupils [at Woodhouse Grove] in the 1820s, Thomas Pinder (1722-7) and John Hope (1823-9), by 1858 were partners in the management of a pottery at Burslem. They remembered those spartan meals and in particular the tim mugs from which they drank their meagre ration of milk and water, and they presenrted to their old school two hundred china mugs... How we would like to know whether those mugs presented by the firm to the school in 1858 were in fact designed by John Kipling!'
(F.C. Pritchard, Woodhouse Grove School (1978) pp.61, 167