Josiah Wedgwood
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Josiah Wedgwood was an English potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist. Founding the Wedgwood company in 1759, he developed improved pottery bodies by systematic experimentation, and was the leader in t
Josiah Wedgwood by George Stubbs, 1780, enamel on a Wedgwood ceramic tablet
Etruria Hall, the family home, built 1768–1771 by Joseph Pickford. It was restored as part of the 1986 Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival and is now part of a four-star hotel.
Vase on stand with inverted Neck, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons and Thomas Bentley, before 1780, black basalt. Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin.
Teapot, Wedgwood 'caneware', c. 1780–1785. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri.
Darwin–Wedgwood family
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The Darwin–Wedgwood family are members of two connected families, each noted for particular prominent 18th-century figures: Erasmus Darwin FRS, a physician and natural philosopher, and Josiah Wedgwood
Josiah Wedgwood
…a founder of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. The medallion used the design from that society. Wedgwood was a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family, and he was the grandfather of Charles and Emma Darwin. There were several related Wedgwood families in the village of Burslem, which around 1650 was…
Josiah Wedgwood FRS (1730–1795)
Samuel "John" Galton
Robert Darwin (1766–1848)
Samuel Tertius Galton