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    Josiah Wedgwood FRS (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) was an English potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist. Founding the Wedgwood company in 1759, he developed...
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    Wedgwood is an English fine china, porcelain and luxury accessories manufacturer that was founded on 1 May 1759 by the potter and entrepreneur Josiah...
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    Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, DSO, PC, DL (16 March 1872 – 26 July 1943), sometimes referred to as Josiah Wedgwood IV, was a British...
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  • Josiah Wedgwood II (3 April 1769 – 12 July 1843), the son of the English potter Josiah Wedgwood, continued his father's firm and was a Member of Parliament...
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    philosopher, and Josiah Wedgwood FRS, a noted potter and founder of the eponymous Josiah Wedgwood & Sons pottery company. The Darwin and Wedgwood families were...
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  • Josiah Wedgwood II (1769–1843), son of the first Josiah Wedgwood, head of the firm Josiah Wedgwood III (1795–1880), son of the second Josiah Wedgwood...
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  • Josiah Wedgwood V (20 October 1899 – 18 May 1968) was the Managing Director of the Wedgwood pottery firm from 1930 until 1968 and credited with a transformation...
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    first photographer". Thomas Wedgwood was the fifth child of eight born to Josiah Wedgwood and his wife Sarah, nee Wedgwood, his third cousin. His father...
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    part of the Wedgwood pottery family. Susannah Wedgwood was the daughter of Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood and grew up at Etruria Hall, the Wedgwood family home...
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  • cousin of the famous potter Josiah Wedgwood, of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons but their two businesses were separate concerns. Wedgwood married Jane Mattinson (1814-1880)...
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    associated measurement technique were proposed by the English potter Josiah Wedgwood in the 18th century. The measurement was based on the shrinking of...
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  • Wedgwood is a British pottery firm founded by Josiah Wedgwood. Wedgwood may also refer to: Wedgwood railway station, Staffordshire, England Wedgwood, Seattle...
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  • Josiah Francis Wedgwood, also known as Josiah Wedgwood VII (February 1, 1950- November 27, 2009) was an American physician and paediatric immunologist...
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    Emma Darwin (redirect from Emma Wedgwood)
    adulthood. Emma Wedgwood was born at the family estate of Maer Hall in Maer, Staffordshire, the youngest of seven children of Josiah Wedgwood II and his wife...
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    The Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion was an abolitionist symbol produced and distributed by British potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood in 1787 as a...
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  • of the potter and abolitionist Josiah Wedgwood. Her uncle was the politician Josiah Wedgwood, later 1st Baron Wedgwood. She was educated at home, and...
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    Creamware (redirect from Wedgwood Ware)
    producer of creamware was Josiah Wedgwood, who perfected the ware, beginning during his partnership with Thomas Whieldon. Wedgwood supplied his creamware...
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    Portland.[citation needed] The 3rd duke lent the original vase to Josiah Wedgwood and then to the British Museum for safe-keeping, by which point it...
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  • the soldier and politician Josiah Wedgwood. He was the great-great-grandson of Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of the Wedgwood pottery dynasty. As of 2023[update]...
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    Thomas Whieldon (category Wedgwood pottery)
    Parrot, the daughter of a notable family from Newcastle-under-Lyme. Josiah Wedgwood recorded how Alice later died very suddenly at church one Sunday night...
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    Jasperware (category Wedgwood pottery)
    Jasperware, or jasper ware, is a type of pottery first developed by Josiah Wedgwood in the 1770s. Usually described as stoneware, it has an unglazed matte...
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    Newcastle, 1900–1906 Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood (1872–1943), Josiah Wedgwood IV, great-great-grandson of Josiah Wedgwood and Liberal MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme...
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    historical works as The Potter’s Hand (a study of the family life of Josiah Wedgwood), Resolution, a fictional account of Captain James Cook's second voyage...
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    former home of the potter Josiah Wedgwood. It was built between 1768–1771 by Joseph Pickford. The hall was sold by the Wedgwoods in the 19th century and...
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    such as Royal Doulton, Dudson, Spode (founded by Josiah Spode), Wedgwood (founded by Josiah Wedgwood), Minton (founded by Thomas Minton) and Baker & Co...
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    Caroline Sarah Wedgwood (née Darwin; 1800–1888) was an English botanist. She was a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family and the elder sister of English...
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    Vol. 12, No. 4 (Fall, 2004), pp. 29–38, accessed 25 January 2021 "Josiah Wedgwood, an Industrial Revolution pioneer". Adam Smith Institute. Retrieved...
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    some detail by the mathematician Euler in 1760. Around 1782 potter Josiah Wedgwood invented a different type of pyrometer (or rather a pyrometric device)...
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    get one free" was devised in the 18th century by retail entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood. This technique is commonly known in the marketing industry by the...
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    pieces. Manufacturers include functional items, for example some from Josiah Wedgwood to more sculptural contemporary works by Ane Christensen. Other examples...
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