• 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • hall became the home of Josiah Wedgwood II and was frequently visited by his nephew Charles Darwin, who went on to marry Josiah's daughter Emma at St. Peter's...
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  • John Wedgwood (baptised 2 April 1766 – 26 January 1844), the eldest son of the potter Josiah Wedgwood, was a partner in the Wedgwood pottery firm 1790–1793...
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    his sister Emma married in 1839. Wedgwood was born at Tarrant Gunville in Dorset, the fourth son of Josiah Wedgwood II and Elizabeth Allen of Cresselly...
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  • Lake Maer, Staffordshire Maer Hall, home of the pottery manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood II Matthew Maer, British Army officer Maer Roshan (born 1967), Iranian-born...
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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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    Maer Hall (category Grade II listed houses in Staffordshire)
    attracted its most famous owner Josiah Wedgwood II. His nephew Charles Darwin often visited Maer, and married Josiah's daughter Emma. A manor house at...
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  • business partner of Josiah Wedgwood. Funding for Ralph's inventions were provided by Josiah's eldest son, Josiah Wedgwood II. "Ralph Wedgwood: Pioneer of Office...
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    Wem but within a day or two of preaching he received a letter from Josiah Wedgwood II, who had offered to help him out of financial difficulties with an...
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    for Lichfield constituency in Staffordshire, where his grandfather, Josiah Wedgwood II, had also been an MP. He wrote vigorously on the economic issues of...
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  • located at 40 Upper Sackville Street. In 1807, the house was sold to Josiah Wedgwood II and in later years became a hotel named the Leitrim House Hotel in...
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  • Henry Allen Wedgwood (4 April 1799 – 17 October 1885) was an English barrister. Wedgwood was the third child and second son of Josiah Wedgwood II and his...
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  • anthropologists. Wedgwood was born on 25 March 1901 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Her father was Josiah Wedgwood later the first Baron Wedgwood. Her mother...
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    financier Robert Darwin and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood). His grandfathers Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood were both prominent abolitionists. Erasmus Darwin...
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    Etruria Hall (category Grade II listed houses in Staffordshire)
    II listed house and former home of the potter Josiah Wedgwood. It was built between 1768–1771 by Joseph Pickford. The hall was sold by the Wedgwoods in...
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    offer and left to go shooting at the estate of his uncle Josiah Wedgwood II. With Wedgwood's help, Darwin's father was persuaded to relent and fund his...
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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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    September, Josiah married Ellen Finley at Stoke-on-Trent, and his eldest son Josiah (II) was born in 1755. It was in 1754 that Josiah Wedgwood became the...
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  • historian. His uncle Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood had been a Liberal and Labour politician and cabinet minister. John Wedgwood stood for the Liberals...
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    and another sister, Elizabeth Allen, was the wife of Josiah Wedgwood II and mother of Emma Wedgwood. This marriage appears to have been a very happy one...
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  • the famous New Hall china. When Josiah Wedgwood died in 1795, his three pits were taken over by his son Josiah Wedgwood II. The Carloggas pit, one of these...
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    linked for some time, his great aunt Elizabeth Allen having married Josiah Wedgwood II. They had one son, Richard Lancelot Baugh Allen, who died in Egypt...
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  • Wedgwood, Josiah, II to Darwin, R. W., 31 Aug 1831". Retrieved 12 April 2019. "Darwin Correspondence Project – Letter 111 – Darwin, R. W. to Wedgwood...
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  • Gunville, Dorset, Wedgwood was the son of the MP Josiah Wedgwood II. He became a partner in the Wedgwood firm in 1827 and was left in sole charge after...
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