She went to the all-girls Kirby Grammar School in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough.
Between 1879 and 1882, as Art Superintendent at the Linthorpe Art Pottery in Linthorpe in Middlesbrough he designed over 1,000 pots.
Jerry Desmonde was born James Robert Sadler in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, into a family of music hall performers who toured the halls in Scotland, north-east England, and Yorkshire.
If his ceramic work from the 1860s onwards (for firms such as Mintons, Wedgwood, Royal Worcester, Watcombe, Linthorpe, Old Hall at Hanley and Ault) is considered, he must be amongst the most influential ceramic designers of any period.