Samuel Bevington established the Swan Works in Elm Street (now Ratton Street), Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent as a Parian works.

• Samuel Bevington was variously described as 'artist', 'China figure maker', 'toy and ornament' manufacturer and 'gilder, lusterer and enameller'.

• In the trade directories he was recorded as "Samuel Bevington"; Samuel Bevington & Son" and "Bevington & Son" 

• The "& Son" was his son John Bevington who joined the business as a partner of the Elm Street Works c.1856 - he also carried on the works after his fathers retirement and death in 1863.

• Ambrose Bevington (another of Samuel's sons) set up in business on his own account and was not thought to have been in partnership with his father. However a notice in the London Gazette records the dissolution of a partnership between Samuel and Ambrose Bevington in January 1863. 

• Samuel Bevington died in November 1863.