The Rotary Club of Stoke-On-Trent inaugural meeting was held on 31st January 1927. Our Charter from Rotary International was signed on 22nd February 1927. 

The first President was Major Frank Wedgwood, a member of the famous pottery manufacturing family.

However, the person largely responsible for the inauguration of the Club was Albert E. Gray of Gray's Pottery, who became the first Vice-President.

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One of AE Gray's chief interests between 1926 and 1946 was the rotary movement, and he is credited with the founding of the Rotary Club of Stoke-On-Trent. A surviving minute book records that on the 17th October 1928 he presided at a meeting of six local business and professional men.

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Three more meetings were held during which more potential members were recruited and the Rotary club was inaugurated with sixteen founder members on the 31st January 1927.