Dablink This article is about the eldest JosiahWedgwood. For his descendants with the same name, see JosiahWedgwood disambiguation Infobox Person name JosiahWedgwood image JosiahWedgwood.jpeg caption ... of a four star hotel. JosiahWedgwood 12 July 1730 3 January 1795 was an England English potter , founder ... Wedgwood n e Stringer d. 1766 , Josiah was raised within a family of English Dissenters . By the age ... to serve as an apprentice potter under his eldest brother Thomas Wedgwood IV . Smallpox left Josiah ... JosiahWedgwood II 1769 1843 father of Emma Darwin , cousin and wife of the English naturalist Charles ... Wedgewood dish UBC .jpg thumb 1780 Wedgwood dish Josiah worked in pottery, and his work was of very ..., he would smash it with his stick, exclaiming, This will not do for JosiahWedgwood Citation needed ... html En 03 hm3 3 2 4b.html Pieces from the Green Frog Service. JosiahWedgwood 1773 1774 , Hermitage ... that grew up between the Wedgwood and Darwin families, Josiah s eldest daughter would later marry Erasmus ... Wedgwood Emma , Josiah s granddaughter. This double barreled inheritance of Wedgwood s money gave Charles .... ref http www.thepotteries.org did you 005.htm Did you know? JosiahWEDGWOOD was a keen advocate ... was named after JosiahWedgwood and ran on the Churnet Valley Railway. ref http www.churnet valley ... on 2011 01 02. ref See also WedgwoodJosiahWedgwood & Sons Erasmus Darwin House Erasmus Darwin Museum house and gardens Inventions JosiahWedgwood also invented the pyrometer, a device to measure .... ISBN 0 670 03346 4. External links commons JosiahWedgwood http www.wedgwood.com Wedgwood website http ... Wedgwood Museum http www.guardian.co.uk artanddesign 2009 feb 07 josiahwedgwood ceramics susan williams ... see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Wedgwood, Josiah ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE ... DEFAULTSORT Wedgwood, Josiah Category 18th century English people Category English potters Category ... Category 1795 deaths cs JosiahWedgwood de JosiahWedgwood 1730 1795 es JosiahWedgwood eo Josiah ... more details
JosiahWedgwood may refer to British potters and entrepreneurs JosiahWedgwood I 1730&ndash 1795 JosiahWedgwood II 1769&ndash 1843 son of the first JosiahWedgwoodJosiahWedgwood III 1795&ndash 1880 son of the second JosiahWedgwoodJosiahWedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood 1872&ndash 1943 , a.k.a. JosiahWedgwood IV, great grandson of the second JosiahWedgwood and great nephew of the third. JosiahWedgwood V 1899&ndash 1968 son of the fourth JosiahWedgwood DEFAULTSORT Wedgwood, Josiah hndis name Wedgwood, Josiah de JosiahWedgwood ... more details
Other persons JosiahWedgwoodJosiah Joe Wedgwood III 12 January 1795&ndash 11 March 1880 , a grandson of the England English potter JosiahWedgwood . Wedgwood was the eldest son of JosiahWedgwood II and his wife Elizabeth Allen. He was taken 1823 partnership in the Wedgwood by his father and was employed there until 1842 when he retired to Leith Hill Place in Surrey . He married his cousin Caroline Darwin 1800&ndash 1888 , the daughter of Robert Darwin and the sister of Charles Darwin . They had four daughters, one of whom died in infancy Sophia Mary Ann Wedgwood 1838&ndash 1839 died in infancy. Sophy Wedgwood 1842&ndash 1911 Margaret Susan Wedgwood 1843&ndash 1937 , married The Reverend Arthur Vaughan Williams and their son was the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams . Lucy Caroline Wedgwood 1846&ndash 1919 External links http www.wedgwood.com Wedgood Website http www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk biogresults.asp?BiographySelection 36 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wedgwood, Josiah Iii ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1795 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1880 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wedgwood, Josiah Iii Category English businesspeople Category Darwin Wedgwood family Category 1795 births Category 1880 deaths ... more details
Other persons JosiahWedgwoodJosiahWedgwood V October 20, 1899 May 18, 1968 was the Managing Director of the Wedgwood pottery firm from 1930 until 1968 and credited with turning the company s fortunes around. Wedgwood was one of seven children of JosiahWedgwood IV later Lord Wedgwood and The Hon. Ethel Kate Bowen, daughter of Sir Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen . He was the great great great grandson of the potter JosiahWedgwood . His sister was the anthropologist Camilla Wedgwood . He married Dorothy Mary Winser in 1919 in Holborn and they had three children Dr. John Wedgwood doctor John Wedgwood 1919 2007 , CBE , Doctor of Medicine MD , Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians FRCP JosiahWedgwood VI, aka Ralph J.P. Wedgwood, Doctor of Medicine MD born 1924 Jennifer Wedgwood 1927 1992 He succeeded his uncle Francis Hamilton Wedgwood as managing director on his uncle s death in 1930. After his retirement, Arthur Bryan later Sir became managing director. External links http www.wedgwood.com Wedgwood Website http www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk josiah v.htm Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wedgwood, Josiah V ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1899 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1968 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wedgwood, Josiah V Category 1899 births Category 1968 deaths Category Darwin Wedgwood family Category English businesspeople Category Old Bedalians UK business bio 1890s stub ... more details
Other persons JosiahWedgwoodJosiahWedgwood II 3 April 1769 &ndash 12 July 1843 , the son of the English potter JosiahWedgwood , continued his father s firm and was Member of Parliament for Stoke upon Trent UK Parliament constituency Stoke upon Trent from 1832 to 1835. He was an abolitionist , and detested slavery. Josiah and his brother Thomas Wedgwood 1771 1805 Thomas gave their friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge a life annuity of 150, with the goal of freeing Coleridge from financial worries and the need ... their first cousins, the offspring of Robert Darwin and Susannah WedgwoodJosiahWedgwood III 1795 1880 married his cousin Caroline Darwin, sister of Charles Darwin . Charlotte Wedgwood 1797 1862 ... interests. In 1807, Wedgwood bought Maer Hall in Staffordshire and his family lived there until his death in 1843. Wedgwood was responsible for the Wedgwood Company s first bone china wares. Wedgwood ... Catherine Darwin, daughter of Robert Darwin , sister of Charles Darwin . Henry Allen Wedgwood 1799 1885 married secondly his cousin Jessie Wedgwood, daughter of John Wedgwood 1766 1844 John Wedgwood 1766 1844 . Francis Wedgwood 1800 1880 Francis Frank Wedgwood 1800 1880 Hensleigh Wedgwood 1803 1891 Fanny Wedgwood, died unmarried in August 1832 at the age of 26. Emma Wedgwood 1808 1896 married her ... Wedgwood Website http www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk biogresults.asp?BiographySelection 35 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wedgwood, Josiah Ii ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 3 April 1769 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 12 July 1843 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wedgwood, Josiah Ii Category 1769 births Category 1843 deaths Category English businesspeople Category UK MPs 1832 1835 Category Darwin Wedgwood family Category Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for English constituencies Category People from Stoke on Trent Category English potters UK MP stub fr JosiahWedgwood II ... more details
Other persons JosiahWedgwood Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood , Distinguished Service Order DSO sometimes referred to as JosiahWedgwood IV 16 March 1872 &ndash 26 July 1943 was a United ... under Ramsay MacDonald . He was the great great grandson of the famous potter JosiahWedgwood . Family JosiahWedgwood was born at Barlaston in Staffordshire , the son of Clement Wedgwood . He was the great great grandson of the potter JosiahWedgwood . His mother Emily Catherine was the daughter ... Baron Wedgwood. He was father of the 3rd Baron. JosiahWedgwood V 1899 1968 , managing director of Wedgwood ... unopposed. Joining Labour Image JosiahWedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood Punch cartoon Project ... Yoshiya lang he , lit. Josiah s Garden in his honour. Wedgwood Memorial College, a residential ... wedgwood.htm Wedgwood Memorial College Barlaston Online ref The JosiahWedgwood , a 1946 Aliyah Bet ... Paul Mulvey 2010 The Political Life of Josiah C. Wedgwood Land, Liberty and Empire, 1872 1943 J ... Last of the Radicals Joshua B. Stein 1992 Our Great Solicitor Josiah C. Wedgwood and the Jews Gabriella ... External links Hansard contribs colonel josiahwedgwoodJosiahWedgwood http www.wedgwood.com Wedgwood ... PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wegwood, Josiah Clement Category 1872 births Wedgwood, JosiahWedgwood, 1st Baron Category 1943 deaths Wedgwood, JosiahWedgwood, 1st Baron Category Darwin Wedgwood family Category ... for English constituencies Category Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Wedgwood, JosiahWedgwood, 1st Baron Category Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Wedgwood, JosiahWedgwood ..., JosiahWedgwood, 1st Baron Category British Army personnel of the Second Boer War Category Royal ... pl JosiahWedgwood .... They had seven children Helen Bowen Wedgwood 1895 1981 , married the geneticist Michael Pease ..., Jocelyn Richenda Gammell Pease 1925 2003 , married Andrew Huxley , the biologist. Rosamund Wedgwood ... more details
otherpersons2 Josiah given name Infobox Monarch name Josiah title King of Judah image Image josiah.gif thumb center 250px center Josiah listening to the reading of the law by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld ... July 609 BC place of death Jerusalem buried tombs of his fathers Josiah or Yoshiyahu Hebrew Name ... 386 entry Josiah ref c. 649 609 BC was a king of Judah 641 609 BC who instituted major reforms. Josiah ... during the Deuteronomic reform that occurred during his rule. Josiah became king of Judah at the age ... of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew . Family Kings of Judah Josiah was the son of King Amon, King ... for idolatrous worship. Josiah s great grandfather was King Hezekiah who was a noted reformer. Josiah had four sons Johanan , Jehoiakim Eliakim born c. 634 BC by Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah ... NIV , bibleverse nb 2 Kings 24 18 NIV , bibleverse nb 2 Kings 23 31 NIV ref Shallum succeeded Josiah ... in a 3 D computer model. In the eighteenth year of his rule, Josiah ordered the High Priest Hilkiah ... Wette De Wette s suggestion in 1805. Hilkiah brought this scroll to Josiah s attention, and the king ... 2 Chronicles 34 22 28 HE ref Josiah encouraged the exclusive worship of Yahweh and outlawed all ... According to the biblical account, Josiah destroyed the living quarters for male cult prostitutes ... to the worship of Baal , Asherah , and all the hosts of the heavens . Josiah had living pagan priests ... on their altars, which was viewed as an extreme act of desecration. Josiah also reinstituted the Passover ... earlier, that a son named Josiah will be born to the house of David and that he would destroy the altar ... erected would one day be destroyed see bibleverse 1 Kings 13 NIV . Josiah ordered the double grave ... to the later account in 2 Chronicles , Josiah even destroyed altars and images of pagan deities ... Necho KnellingStatue BrooklynMuseum.png thumb right 100px Pharaoh Necho II When Josiah became king of Judah ...&dq josiah, book of kings, assyria&source bl&ots skO wCr7x&sig A3eJN2mvKabtOIHGXyrXqhgKiKA&hl en&ei ... more details
Wedgwood is a British pottery firm founded by JosiahWedgwood. TOC right Wedgwood may also refer to Places Wedgwood railway station , Staffordshire, England Wedgwood, Seattle , neighbourhood of Seattle, Washington, United States People with surname Wedgwood Darwin Wedgwood family , interrelated English families of Charles Darwin and JosiahWedgwood, founder of the pottery firm JosiahWedgwood and namesake descendants JosiahWedgwood , aka JosiahWedgwood I 1730 1795 , founder of the firm JosiahWedgwood II 1769 1843 , son of Josiah I JosiahWedgwood III 1795 1880 , son of Josiah II JosiahWedgwood, 1st Baron WedgwoodJosiahWedgwood IV 1872 1943 , great great grandson of Josiah I JosiahWedgwood V 1899 1968 , son of JosiahWedgwood IV Others Clement Wedgwood 1840 1889 partner in the pottery firm Emma Darwin , n e Wedgwood, 1808 1896 , wife of Charles Darwin Francis Wedgwood 1800 1888 , partner in the pottery firm Hensleigh Wedgwood 1803 1891 , etymologist, philologist, barrister and author Sir John Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet 1907 1989 , politician and industrialist J. I. Wedgwood 1883 1951 , Presiding Bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet 1874 1956 , railway executive Susannah Darwin , n e Wedgwood, mother of Charles Darwin Thomas Wedgwood III 1685 1739 , father of JosiahWedgwood Thomas Wedgwood IV 1716 1773 , eldest son of Thomas III Thomas Wedgwood photographer 1771 1805 , English pioneer of photography, son of JosiahWedgwood Veronica Wedgwood 1910 1997 , historian See also Wedgewood disambiguation disambig de Wedgwood fr Wedgwood he ... more details
Baron Wedgwood , of Barlaston in the County of Stafford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . It was created in 1942 for the soldier and politician JosiahWedgwood, 1st Baron WedgwoodJosiahWedgwood . He was the great great grandson of JosiahWedgwood , the founder of the Wedgwood pottery dynasty. As of 2010 the title is held by the first Baron s great grandson, the fourth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1970. Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet Ralph Wedgwood , younger brother of the first Baron, was created a Baronet, of Dorking, in 1942. Barons Wedgwood 1942 JosiahWedgwood, 1st Baron WedgwoodJosiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood 1872 1943 Francis Charles Bowen Wedgwood, 2nd Baron Wedgwood 1898 1959 Hugh Everard Wedgwood, 3rd Baron Wedgwood 1921 1970 Piers Anthony Weymouth Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood b. 1954 The heir presumptive is the present holder s second cousin, Antony John Wedgwood b. 1944 . He is the eldest son Dr John Wedgwood doctor John Wedgwood , son of the Hon. JosiahWedgwood, younger son of the first Baron. See also Wedgwood Baronets Wedgwood Baronets, of Dorking References Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David editors . Debrett s Peerage and Baronetage 1990 edition . New York St Martin s Press, 1990. rayment Category Baronies Wedgwood pl Baron Wedgwood ... more details
The Wedgwood Baronetcy , of Etruria, Staffordshire Etruria in the County of Stafford, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom . It was created in 1942 for Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet Ralph Wedgwood , chairman of the World War II Railway Executive Committee. He was the great great grandson of the potter JosiahWedgwood and the younger brother of JosiahWedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood . ref http www.steamindex.com people wedgwood.htm steamindex.com ref Baronets of Etruria 1942 Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet Sir Ralph Lewis Wedgwood, 1st Baronet 1874 1956 Sir John Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet Sir John Hamilton Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet 1907 1989 Sir Martin Wedgwood, 3rd Baronet Sir Hugo Martin Wedgwood, 3rd Baronet 1933 2010 Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 4th Baronet Sir Ralph Nicholas Wedgwood, 4th Baronet b. 1964 See also Baron Wedgwood References reflist rayment b DEFAULTSORT Wedgwood Category Baronetcies Wedgwood ... more details
John Wedgwood may refer to John Wedgwood 1721 1767 , merchant of London John Wedgwood horticulturist , founder of the Royal Horticultural Society and son of JosiahWedgwood The Rev. John Allen Wedgwood 1796 1882 , usually known as Allen Wedgwood, vicar of Maer, Staffordshire Sir John Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet 1907 1989 John Wedgwood doctor 1919 2007 hndis Wedgwood, John ... more details
Clement Francis Wedgwood 25 February 1840 24 January 1889 partner in the Wedgwood pottery firm. The son of Francis Wedgwood 1800 1880 Francis Wedgwood and his wife Frances Mosley. He was a great grandson of the potter JosiahWedgwood . He married Emily Catherine Rendel, daughter of the engineer James Meadows Rendel , on 6 November 1866 and they had five sons, one of whom died in infancy Francis Hamilton Wedgwood , Justice of the peace JP , High Sheriff , 1867 1930 Clement Henry Wedgwood 1870 1871 died in infancy JosiahWedgwood IV Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood 1872 1943 Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet 1874 1956 1st baronet, chief officer of the LNER for 16 years. Arthur Felix Wedgwood 1877 1917 , killed during the First World War http www.cwgc.org search casualty details.aspx?casualty 590572 External links http worldconnect.rootsweb.com cgi bin igm.cgi?op GET&db rkwest&id I36450 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wedgwood, Clement Francis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 25 February 1840 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 24 January 1889 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wedgwood, Clement Francis Category 1840 births Category 1889 deaths Category Darwin Wedgwood family ... more details
Enoch Wedgwood 1813 1879 was an England English potter, founder in 1860 of the pottery firm Wedgwood & Co of Tunstall, Staffordshire Tunstall , Stoke on Trent . He was a distant cousin if you can work out how many times removed, then you get a cookie of the famous potter JosiahWedgwood , of WedgwoodJosiahWedgwood & Sons but their two businesses were separate concerns. Wedgwood married Jane Mattinson 1814 1880 in 1837. They had four children, one of whom died in infancy Edmund Mattinson Wedgwood 1840 1904 , potter. Charlotte 1843 ? Alfred Joseph Wedgwood 1845 1846 died in infancy. Alfred Enoch Wedgwood 1850 1894 , potter. Wedgwood & Co was renamed Enoch Wedgwood Tunstall Ltd in 1965 and in 1980 it was taken over by JosiahWedgwood & Sons, who renamed it Unicorn Pottery. External links http www.thepotteries.org allpotters 1061a.htm http web.archive.org web 20091020062514 http geocities.com Heartland 3203 WmIII.html Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wedgwood, Enoch ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1813 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1879 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wedgwood, Enoch Category 1813 births Category 1879 deaths Category English potters Category People from Tunstall, Staffordshire ... more details
Notability date February 2010 Laurence Wedgwood 1844 5 May 1913 director of the Wedgwood pottery firm. Wedgwood was the youngest son of Francis Wedgwood 1800 1880 Francis Wedgwood and his wife Frances Mosley. Wedgewood helped incorporate JosiahWedgwood & Sons Ltd. in 1895. ref cite web url http wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk learning discovery packs 2179 pack 2184 chapter 2331 title Lives of the Wedgwoods The fourth generation accessdate 2010 02 28 publisher The Wedgwood Museum ref Elder brothers Godfrey Wedgwood Godfrey and Clement Wedgwood Clement were also in the business. He was the great grandson of the potter JosiahWedgwood . He married Emma Elizabeth Houseman in 18 April 1871 and they had six children, including Kennard Laurence Wedgwood 1873 1949 , partner in Wedgwood & sons. References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wedgwood, Laurence ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1844 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 5 May 1913 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wedgwood, Laurence Category 1844 births Category 1913 deaths Category British potters UK business bio stub ... more details
Notability date February 2010 Kennard Laurence Wedgwood 11 November 1873 1949 partner in the Wedgwood pottery firm and who imported Wedgwood wares into North America . Wedgwood was the son of Laurence Wedgwood and his wife Emma Elizabeth Houseman. He was the great great grandson of the potter JosiahWedgwood . He married Kathleen Wright on 15 July 1908 and they had a daughter Nancy 1910 ? . He became a partner in Wedgwood with his cousins Francis Hamilton Wedgwood and In 1906 Wedgwood went to the United States and set up an office in New York . ref cite web url http wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk learning discovery packs 2179 pack 2184 chapter 2311 title Lives of the Wedgwoods The fifth generation accessdate 2010 02 28 publisher The Wedgwood Museum ref This became JosiahWedgwood and Sons USA, an incorporated subsidiary, in 1919. He retired from the firm in 1947, a second cousin one removed Hensleigh Cecil Wedgwood taking over the American side of the business. References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wedgwood, Kennard Laurence ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 11 November 1873 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1949 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wedgwood, Kennard Laurence Category 1873 births Category 1949 deaths ... more details
Godfrey Wedgwood 22 January 1833 9 October 1905 was a partner in the Wedgwood pottery firm from 1859 to 1891. Wedgwood was born in Etruria Hall , the son of Francis Wedgwood 1800 1880 Francis Wedgwood and his wife Frances Mosley. He was taken into partnership by his father in 1859, and was later joined by his younger brothers Clement Wedgwood Clement and Laurence Wedgwood Laurence . He and his brothers were responsible for the reintroduction of bone china c. 1876 and the employment of the artists Thomas Allen and Emile Lessore . In 1898, like his great grandfather JosiahWedgwood , he suffered the amputation of his right leg. He married twice, first to Mary Jane Jackson Hawkshaw c. 1836 1863 on 24 June 1862 at St. Peter Pimlico, Westminster, Middlesex with whom he had a son Cecil Wedgwood 1863 1916 but she died in 1863. And secondly on 14 October 1876 in Marylebone Registry Office to his cousin Hope Elizabeth Wedgwood, daughter of Hensleigh Wedgwood . They had a daughter Mary Euphrasia Wedgwood 1880 1952 . Godfrey Wedgwood died at Idlerocks and is buried All Saints Churchyard in Moddershall , Staffordshire . External links http www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk biogresults.asp?BiographySelection 38 http worldconnect.rootsweb.com cgi bin igm.cgi?op GET&db rkwest&id I36451 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wedgwood, Godfrey ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 22 January 1833 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 9 October 1905 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wedgwood, Godfrey Category 1833 births Category 1905 deaths Category Darwin Wedgwood family Category People from Stoke on Trent Category English amputees ... more details
Image Cecil Wedgwood.jpg frame Major Cecil Wedgwood. Major Cecil Wedgwood Distinguished Service Order DSO 1863 3 July 1916 was a British soldier and partner in the Wedgwood pottery firm. Wedgwood was the only son of Godfrey Wedgwood and his first wife Mary Jane Jackson Hawkshaw, daughter of the great civil engineer Sir John Hawkshaw who died shortly after he was born. He was the great great grandson of the potter JosiahWedgwood . Wedgwood became a partner in the 1884 with his uncle Laurence Wedgwood and later his cousin Francis Hamilton Wedgwood . He married Lucie Gibson in 1888, and they had two daughters, one of whom married a brother of the Wedgwood pottery designer Daisy Makeig Jones Phoebe Sylvia Wedgwood 1893 1972 remained unmarried. Doris Audrey Wedgwood 1894 1968 married Thomas Geoffrey Rowland Makeig Jones in 1928. Wedgwood was commissioned Lieutenant in the 4th Militia Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment in 1883. He served in the Second Boer War Boer War , where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1902. He was First Mayor of the Federated County Borough of Stoke on Trent in 1910 and 1911. On the outbreak of World War I in 1914 he raised the 8th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment . He was killed at the La Boiselle during the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. His body was found and identified by James Leather, a 21 year old bandsman and stretcher bearer. He is buried at the Bapaume Post Military Cemetery in Albert, Somme . He was succeeded as Chairman and Managing Director of Wedgwood by his cousin Francis Hamilton Wedgwood . External links http www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk biogresults.asp?BiographySelection 39 http www.cwgc.org cwgcinternet casualty ... I36612 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wedgwood, Cecil ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1863 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1916 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wedgwood, Cecil Category 1863 births Category 1916 deaths Category English potters Category Darwin Wedgwood ... more details
The Hon. Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood 25 March 1901 Barlaston, England 17 May 1955 was a British anthropology anthropologist best known for research in the Pacific and her pioneering role as one of the Commonwealth of Nations British Commonwealth s first female anthropologists. Biography Wedgwood s father was JosiahWedgwood, 1st Baron WedgwoodJosiahWedgwood later the first Baron Wedgwood. Her mother, Ethel Bowen Wedgwood, was the daughter of a Lord Justice of Appeal, Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen Charles Bowen . She was a member of the extensive Darwin Wedgwood family Wedgwood family . A well known intellectual in the mould of Virginia Woolf , she attended Newcastle under Lyme School Orme Girls School in Staffordshire, Bedales , and then studied English at Bedford College London Bedford College and Newnham College , University of Cambridge Cambridge . During her childhood, her parents separated and later divorced. It was at Cambridge that she studied under Alfred Court Haddon , one of the most recognized anthropologists of the time. As a result she decided to become an anthropologist. One of her first tasks after graduation in 1926 was to edit the manuscript of Malekula A Vanishing People in the New Hebrides by the late Arthur Bernard Deacon another of Haddon s students for publication ... of Economics . In 1932 Wedgwood received a grant from the Australian Research Council to conduct fieldwork ... Wedgwood took a position at the Australian School of Pacific Administration , which was responsible ... death in 1955 of lung cancer . Sources and further reading Camilla C.H. Wedgwood 1901 1955, a Life ... was Very Cambridge Camilla Wedgwood and the History of Women in British Anthropology . 1986. By Nancy Lutkehaus. American Ethnologist 13 4 776 98. http nla.gov.au nla.ms ms483 Finding guide for Wedgwood ... Dictionary of Biography Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wedgwood, Camilla ... Wedgwood, Camilla Category 1901 births Category 1955 deaths Category Darwin Wedgwood family ... more details
No footnotes date April 2009 Hensleigh Wedgwood 21 January 1803 2 June 1891 was a United Kingdom British etymologist , philologist and barrister , author of A Dictionary of English Etymology . Wedgwood was the fourth son of JosiahWedgwood II and Elizabeth Allen. He was a cousin of Charles Darwin whom his sister Emma Darwin Emma married in 1839. ref name odnb Cite web last Herford first C. H. authorlink coauthors rev. John D. Haigh title Wedgwood, Hensleigh 1803 1891 work Oxford Dictionary of National Biography publisher Oxford University Press date 2004 url http www.oxforddnb.com view article 28965 format doi accessdate 2010 05 09 ref Wedgwood did well in maths but finished bottom in the classics classical tripos at University of Cambridge Cambridge in 1824, for which he was awarded the first wooden wedge , equivalent to the wooden spoon award wooden spoon . ref name odnb He was also interested in Spiritualism religious movement Spiritualism , holding seance s and sending a hoax photograph of himself in the presence of spirit s to Thomas Henry Huxley T.H. Huxley . He married Frances ... Wedgwood 1833 1913 , feminist philosopher and writer known as Snow . James Mackintosh Wedgwood 1834 1874 Ernest Hensleigh Wedgwood 1837 1898 Katherine Euphemia Wedgwood 1839 1934 , married Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer . Alfred Allen Wedgwood 1842 1892 , father of J. I. Wedgwood . Hope Elizabeth 1844 1935 married her cousin Godfrey Wedgwood . Partial list of works http books.google.com books?id ... name term Wedgwood 2C 20Hensleigh http wardsbookofdays.com 2june.htm Hensleigh Wedgwood and The Wooden Spoon Ward s Book of Days Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wedgwood, Hensleigh ... 2 June 1891 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wedgwood, Hensleigh Category 1803 births Category 1891 deaths Category Darwin Wedgwood family Category Etymologists linguist stub UK academic bio stub fr Hensleigh Wedgwood ... more details
Inappropriate tone date May 2008 Wedgwood Halls is one of the Halls of Residence at the Stoke Campus of Staffordshire University . Each of the buildings is named after famous potters, the Wedgwood in question being JosiahWedgwood . The building is split into 4 sections, each recognizable by a different colour. The colours are Blue , Yellow , Red and Green . Each section of Wedgwood Halls houses up to 36 students at a time. There are 3 floors, each containing 12 student rooms accompanied by a bathroom containing 3 showers and 2 toilet cubicles and a kitchen containing two cookers, 3 fridge freezers, two sinks and enough storage space for up to twelve residents. Wedgwood Red holds facilities for disabled students such as a disabled toilet and larger room. Wedgwood green contains rooms adapted for deaf students, ie, flashing lights and an attachment for a vibrating pillow to signal that the fire alarm is going off ref Fire alarm going off in Wedgwood green http www.youtube.com watch?v VJunKP5ol40 ref . It is usually standard practice to put boys on the bottom floor of any single gender halls on campus, for security reasons. Wedgwood and inparticular wedgewood red are the known as the party halls and is located no more than a 100 yards away from the Student Union Bar the LRV Leed Road Venue coord 53.0079 2.1741 type edu region GB STE display title Category Buildings and structures in Stoke on Trent Category Staffordshire University references ... more details
The Wedgwood Institute is a large red brick building that stands in Queen Street, in the town of Burslem , Stoke on Trent , Staffordshire , England . It is sometimes called the Wedgwood Memorial Institute, but it is not to be confused with the Wedgwood Memorial College in Barlaston . Image Wedgwood institute.JPG thumb right 200px Wedgwood Institute, Queen Street, Burslem , Stoke on Trent , photographed in May 2008 Image Nationaldesign.jpg thumb 200px National Academy of Design , New York 1863 65 . Built in the same decade as the Wedgwood Institute, it was another example of a Gothic Revival building modelled on the Doge s Palace, Venice Doge s Palace The Wedgwood Institute is named after the potter JosiahWedgwood and stands on the site of the Brick House pottery works which he rented from 1762 to 1770. This was the second of his pottery works in the town of Burslem , the first being at the Ivy House works. The building was funded by public subscription and was constructed between 1863 69. The foundation stone was laid by then Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone on 26 October 1863 the building itself opened 21 April 1869 the School of Art and Science opened in October 1869 the Free Library opened in 1870 and the fa ade was completed by November 1871. The basic design is by an architect ... http www.thepotteries.org art 17.htm JosiahWedgwood Memorial Institute sculpture ref Over the entrance is a Tympanum architecture tympanum with portrait medallions of three people connected with Wedgwood ... Bentley manufacturer Thomas Bentley 1730 1780 , a business partner of Wedgwood. Above the tympanum is a statue of JosiahWedgwood. The statue is in the middle of a frieze . Around the upper storey ... of the corresponding signs of the zodiac. ref http www.thepotteries.org art 17.htm JosiahWedgwood ... JosiahWedgwood Memorial Institute sculpture for detailed pictures of the building http www.thepotteries.org photos burslem centre wedgwood institute.htm Wedgwood Institute Queen Street Burslem Pictures ... more details
Francis Wedgwood may refer to Francis Wedgwood 1800 1880 Francis Wedgwood, 2nd Baron Wedgwood 1921 1970 Francis Hamilton Wedgwood 1867 1930 hndis name Wedgewood, Francis DEFAULTSORT Wedgewood, Francis ... more details
File JosiahWedgwood.jpeg thumb JosiahWedgwood The Wedgwood scale is an obsolete temperature scale , which was used to measure temperatures above the boiling point of mercury of convert 356 C F . The scale and associated measurement technique were proposed by the England English potter JosiahWedgwood in the 18th century. The measurement was based on the sintering shrinking of clay when heated above red heat , and the shrinking was evaluated by comparing heated and unheated clay cylinders. The scale started at convert 1077.5 F C being 0 Wedgwood and had 240 steps of convert 130 F C . Both the origin and the step were later found inaccurate. History The boiling point of mercury limits the mercury in glass thermometer to temperatures below 350 C, which is too low for many industrial applications such as pottery, glass making and metallurgy. To solve this problem, the English potter JosiahWedgwood proposed, in the 18th century, a method to measure temperatures in his kiln s. ref cite journal last1 Chaldecott first1 J. A. title Presidential Address JosiahWedgwood 1730 95 Scientist id JSTOR 4025813 journal The British Journal for the History of Science volume 8 issue 1 pages 1 16 year ... A device for converting the diameter of the annealed clay cylinder into the Wedgwood temperature. A 0.5 ... the temperature calculation, Wedgwood built a device which would directly read the temperature ... 0 on Wedgwood scale was set at the onset temperature of red heat, convert 1077.5 F C . The scale ..., Johann Samuel Traugott author2 Littrow, Karl Ludwig year 1834 ref Wedgwood tried to compare his ... of Wedgwood and came to the conclusion that the starting point should be significantly lower, at convert ... 130 F C to no more than convert 62.5 F C . However, even after this revision the Wedgwood measurements ... DEFAULTSORT Wedgwood Scale Category Obsolete units of measure Category Units of temperature Category Science and technology in England de Wedgwood Skala ... more details
Thomas Wedgwood may refer to Thomas Wedgwood III 1685 1739 , English potter Thomas Wedgwood IV 1716 1773 , English master potter Thomas Wedgwood photographer 1771 1805 , English pioneer of photography hndis Wedgwood, Thomas ... more details
Ralph Wedgwood may refer to Ralph Wedgwood inventor 1766 1837 , English inventor Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet 1874 1956 , British businessman Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 4th Baronet 1964 , British philosopher hndis name Wedgwood, Ralph ... more details
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