DOULTON, SIR HENRY (182o-1897), English inventor and manufacturer of pottery, was born in Vauxhall on July 25, 182o, and died in London on Nov. 18, 1897. From the age of 15 he was employed in the pottery works of his father, John Doul ton, at Lambeth. One of the first results of his experiments was the production of good enamel glazes. In 1846 he initiated in Lambeth the pipe works for the manufacture of the drainage and sanitary appliances which have helped to make the firm of Doulton famous. In 187o the manufacture of "Art pottery" was begun at Lambeth, and in 1877 works were opened at Burslem, and later at Rowley Regis, Smethwick, St. Helens, Paisley and Paris. After the Paris exhibition of 1878 Henry Doulton was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour. In 1872 the "Art department" was instituted in the Doulton works, giving employ ment to both male and female artists, amongst whom George Tinworth and the Misses Barlow obtained a reputation outside their immediate sphere. In 1885 Doulton was awarded the Albert medal by the Society of Arts, and was knighted in 1887. DOUMER, PAUL (1857-1932), French statesman, was born at Aurillac on March 22, 1857, and entered the Chamber of Depu ties in 1888. As minister of finance in the Bourgeois cabinet (Nov. 3, 1895, to April 21, 1896), he tried without success to introduce an income-tax. In Jan. 1897 he became governor of Indo-China, where he carried out important public works. In 1902 he returned to France and to the Chamber of Deputies. He refused to support the Combes ministry, and formed a Radical dissident group, which eventually caused the fall of the ministry. Doumer was elected president of the chamber in Jan. 1905, being re-elected in Jan. 1906. Senator in 1921, he was minister without portfolio in the Painleve Government, and in 1921-22 and 1925-26 was minister of finance. In 1932, shortly after his election as president of the Republic, he was assassinated by a Russian. Doumer wrote L'Indo-Chine f rancaise (1903) .