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	Josiah Wedgwood - LoveToKnow 1911
		JOSIAH WEDGWOOD (1730-1795), the most distinguished of English manufacturers of pottery, came of a family many members of which had been established as potters in Stafford - shire throughout the 17th century and had played a notable part in the development of the infant industry.
		Josiah, born in 1730, was the youngest child of another Thomas Wedgwood, who owned a small but thriving pottery in Burslem.
		Wedgwood was particularly successful in this direction, for his " dry " bodies - some of which, like the fl and cane bodies, had long been known in the district, others, such as the famous Jasper bodies,.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Josiah_Wedgwood (1011 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Josiah Wedgwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas Wedgwood III (1685-1739) was an English potter and the father of Josiah Wedgwood, the famous potter.
		Wedgwood's company is still a famous name in pottery today (as part of Waterford Wedgwood; see Waterford Crystal), and "Wedgwood China" is the commonly used term for his Jasperware, the blue (or sometimes green) china with overlaid white decoration, still common throughout the world.
		Wedgwood was also keenly interested in the scientific advances of his day and it was this interest that underpinned his adoption of its approach and methods to revolutionize the quality of his pottery.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Josiah-Wedgwood (2457 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Josiah Wedgwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 - January 3, 1795) was an English potter credited with the industrializing of the manufacture of pottery.
		Wedgwood's work was of very high quality, and by 1763 he was receiving orders from the highest levels of the British nobility, including Queen Charlotte[?].
		Wedgwood's company is still a famous name in pottery today, and "Wedgwood China" is the commonly used term for the jasper ware white china with blue markings still common throughout the world.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/jo/Josiah_Wedgwood (577 words)

	Josiah Wedgwood - Encyclopedia.com
		Josiah Wedgwood 1730-95, English potter, descendant of a family of Staffordshire potters and perhaps the greatest of all potters.
		Wedgwood entered the field of pottery at a time when it was still a backward and minor industry and by his skill, taste, and organizing abilities transformed it into one of great importance and enormous aesthetic appeal.
		Josiah Wedgwood (1872-1943): the Commons Sense biographies of MPs from the past come from the work of the History of Parliament.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Wedgwood.html (1284 words)

	Camilla Hidegarde Wedgwood
		Wedgwood's nine year administration brought many positive changes to the University; a new wing was added to the school, the cultural life of the College was enriched and developed, and the female students were encouraged to take part in the general life of the University.
		Wedgwood found a general indifference toward the education of females, a view that was shared by the indigenous village teachers (who were predominantly men) and even by some of the older native women.
		Wedgwood was a regular contributor to "Oceania," "South Pacific," and her work appeared in the "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute." In her writings, Wedgwood tackled various theoretical issues such as the male bias in anthropological research.
	www.webster.edu /~woolflm/camillawedgewood.html (1229 words)

	Josiah Wedgwood
		Soon after the death of his father in 1739, Josiah, then scarcely ten years of age, was taken away from school and set to learn the art of "throwing" clay, i.e.
		It will always remain to Wedgwood's credit that he was the most successful and original potter the world has ever seen -- the only one, through all the centuries, of whom it can be truthfully said that the whole subsequent course of pottery manufacture has been influenced by his skill.
		He died on the 3rd of January 1795, rich in honors and in friends, for besides being a great potter he was a man of high moral worth, and was associated with many noted men of his time, amongst whom should be mentioned Sir Joseph Banks, Joseph Priestley and Erasmus Darwin.
	www.nndb.com /people/821/000049674 (849 words)

	Josiah Wedgwood
		Wedgwood's power to collect and retain images of man-made and natural beauty was evident throughout his life.
		Wedgwood sketched out the borders that he wished, the shapes of vessels, details of ornament, the composition of a relief, the enframement, the treatment of draperies and trees.
		In the Catalogue of 1787, Wedgwood enters the fact that the tablet called the Judgment of Hercules (the choice between a life of pleasure or of fame) was "modelled agreeably to Lord Shaftesbury's idea of representing the subject." Evidently, all writers on Wedgwood have believed this referred to a noble patron.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles01/article973.shtml (1154 words)

	"Josiah Wedgwood Part 2" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Josiah Wedgwood may have decided to tread a different path to that provided by the nations interest in the Chinese porcelain but that did not mean that he shut his eyes to its significance.
		Josiah Wedgwood also made a great point, again adopted from oriental practices, though you would think it would have been standard practice world wide, of serving his customers, listening to what they wanted and making sure they got it.
		Wedgwood’s main aim at this time was to improve the quality and colour of the Creamware that was being made by most of the Staffordshire potteries.
	www.abcir.org /jwedgwood2.shtml (1680 words)

	BBC - History - Josiah Wedgwood (1730 - 1795)
		Wedgwood was an innovative designer, a manufacturer of high-quality pottery and a campaigner for social reform.
		Josiah Wedgwood was born into a family of potters on 12 July 1730, at Burslem, Staffordshire.
		Wedgwood was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1783, primarily for inventing the pyrometer to measure oven temperatures.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/wedgwood_josiah.shtml (452 words)

	Josiah Wedgwood & Innovation
		Josiah’s faith in the steam engine being a great asset to the industry was passed to his competitors as well as his own family successors to the business.
		Wedgwood’s choice of colours for Jasper, dictated largely by the metal oxides available for the staining of the clay mixture, bore a close relationship to the colours most favoured for the interiors by Robert Adam (1728-1792) and James Wyatt (1746-1813).
		Josiah who wrote to his partner Thomas Bentley in June 1779 saying, ‘Fashion is infinitely superior to merit in many respects; and it is plain from a thousand instances that if you have a favourite child you wish the public to fondle and take notice of, you have only to make choice of proper sponcers’.
	www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk /wedgwood_and_innovation.htm (5157 words)

	Wikinfo \| Josiah Wedgwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 - January 3, 1795) was an English potter, credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of pottery.
		Wedgwood's work was of very high quality, and by 1763 he was receiving orders from the highest levels of the British nobility, including Queen Charlotte.
		Wedgwood's company is still a famous name in pottery today, and "Wedgwood China" is the commonly used term for his jasper ware, the blue (or sometmes green) china with overlaid white decoration, still common throughout the world.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Josiah_Wedgwood (653 words)

	Josiah Wedgwood
		Wedgwood was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, on July 12, 1730, into a family with a long tradition as potters.
		Wedgwood's greatest contribution to European ceramics, however, was his fine pearlware, an extremely pale creamware with a bluish tint to its glaze.
		Wedgwood's basalt, a hard, fl, stone-like material known also as Egyptian ware or basaltes ware, was used for vases, candlesticks, and realistic busts of historical figures.
	www.thepotteries.org /potters/wedgwood.htm (972 words)

	Collectible Antiques Etc - Josiah Wedgwood: The First Name in Pottery and Porcelain Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wedgwood was a family name long before it came as close as any surname can to being synonymous with a craft.
		Josiah left school to work in the family shop but it would be five years before he would get the honor and complicated set of legalistic restrictions that went with the title apprentice.
		Wedgwood, as clever a marketer as he was a potter, exploited this relationship to make himself the most famous potter of his day, if not of all time.
	www.collectibleantiquesetc.com /wedgwood1.shtml (846 words)

	Josiah Wedgwood at AllExperts
		Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 – January 3, 1795) was an English potter, credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of pottery.
		Wedgwood's work was of very high quality (when visiting his workshop, if he saw an offending vessel that failed to meet with his standards, he would smash it with his stick, exclaiming, "This will not do for Josiah Wedgwood!").
		Wedgwood was also keenly interested in the scientific advances of his day and it was this interest that underpinned his adoption of its approach and methods to revolutionise the quality of his pottery.
	en.allexperts.com /e/j/jo/josiah_wedgwood.htm (821 words)

	Wedgwood at Replacements
		The history of Wedgwood begins with the birth of the company’s founder, Josiah Wedgwood, in 1730.
		Wedgwood named his factory after the master potters who occupied central Italy until it was taken by the Romans in the 4th and 5th centuries B.C. The Etruscans were especially skilled at molding and crafting a fl pottery called buchero onto which Hellenized figures could be affixed.
		Wedgwood made several cameos using the seal of the committee in an attempt to proliferate the abolitionist movement, a movement that would not become vogue for another 50 years.
	www.replacements.com /mfghist/wedgwoodchina.htm (1453 words)

	Darwin Day Celebration - englishL
		Sarah Wedgwood (1734-1815) was the daughter of Richard Wedgwood, cheese factor of Spen Green, Cheshire.
		Josiah cherished his well educated and capable wife, whom he called 'Sally', and told his friend Thomas Bentley that she was his 'chief help-mate'.
		Josiah brought not only financial stability to his family, but endowed them with his humanitarian beliefs, especially his abolitionist position on slavery, as well as his Unitarian religious beliefs and traditions that had great influence on his children and grandchildren.
	www.darwinday.org /englishL/life/maternal.html (741 words)

	Josiah Wedgewood
		Josiah born in 1730 was the youngest of a large family.
		In 1766, Josiah Wedgwood was appointed "Potter to Her Majesty, the Queen".
		In 1769 the work of Josiah's partnership with his cousin, Thomas Wedgwood for the manufacture of useful wares is impressed with this mark made with a slug.
	www.antiquesndynasties.com /josiah_wedgewood.htm (906 words)

	Ceramics Today - Wedgwood
		Josiah Wedgwood was born in Burslem, Staffordshire where potters had been situated for a long time.
		Wedgwood was able to eliminate the problem of crazing (he appearance of small cracks in the glaze) which had been a great problem in English pottery up to that time He also perfected a green glaze which appeared on popular fruit and vegetable teapots, such as the well-known 'cauliflower' tea- pot.
		Wedgwood must have known that an order such as this one would not be very profitable due to the high costs of production (each plate was decorated with an individual scene as a 'one-off' piece) but he was not one to let such a publicity opportunity slip through his hands.
	www.ceramicstoday.com /articles/050300a.htm (646 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, DSO sometimes referred to as Josiah Wedgwood IV (16 March 1872 – 26 July 1943) was a British Liberal and Labour politician who served in government under Ramsay MacDonald.
		Josiah Wedgwood was born at Barlaston in Staffordshire, the son of Clement Wedgwood.
		Wedgwood accepted, resigning as MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme after 36 years and becoming Baron Wedgwood of Barlaston in 1942.
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	Columbia Encyclopedia- Wedgwood Josiah - AOL Research & Learn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wedgwood entered the field of pottery at a time when it was still a backward and minor industry and by his skill, taste, and organizing abilities transformed it into one of great importance and enormous aesthetic appeal.
		Wedgwood soon acquired a reputation for his cream-colored earthenware, known as queen's ware, and at the same time produced decorative objects, candlesticks, and vases of a fl composition known as basalt or Egyptian stoneware.
		Wedgwood's terra-cottas of various hues were made with one color in relief upon another.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/wedgwood-josiah/20051207172709990016 (501 words)

	Wedgwood China & Josiah Wedgwood Reference Information and History @ Collectics Antiques & Collectibles
		Josiah Wedgwood was born in Burslem, Stoke in the Staffordshire region of England to Thomas Wedgwood, a potter and the father of 13 children.
		It is said that Wedgwood first used the "clocking in" system for factory workers to monitor his workers and their hours, and he invented the pyrometer which measured temperatures in the kiln.
		Wedgwood also is said to have opened the first true shop for the sale of ceramics, for previously pieces were made custom to the customer's designs.
	www.collectics.com /education_wedgwood.html (838 words)

	Josiah Wedgwood Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Josiah Wedgwood was born in August 1730 at Burslem, Staffordshire, into a family which had been engaged in the manufacture of pottery since the 17th century.
		In the early 1760s Wedgwood met Thomas Bentley, a cultivated man devoted to neoclassicism, and in 1769 they opened a factory near Burslem which was called Etruria and dedicated to the creation of ornamental pottery designed in the neoclassic manner.
		Jasperware, which Wedgwood perfected about 1775, is a fine stoneware with a solid body color in blue, soft green, lavender, pink, fl, or other colors and generally decorated with delicate low-relief designs in white adapted from Greek vase paintings, Roman relief sculpture, and other antique sources.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/josiah-wedgwood (630 words)

	Josiah Wedgwood
		His father, Clement Wedgwood, was the grandson of Josiah Wedgwood, the famous potter from Staffordshire.
		Wedgwood had grown disillusioned with the Liberal Party and in the 1918 General Election he stood as an Independent.
		Wedgwood was an early critic of Hitler and argued for changes in the law that would enable Germans fleeing from Fascism to settle in Britain.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUwedgwood.htm (1083 words)

	Biography - Josiah Wedgwood
		Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) is the most influential figure in the history of Western civilization ceramics.
		In 1754 Wedgwood (notice there is no "e") entered into a five-year partnership with the 2nd most innovative ceramicist of his day, Thomas Whieldon, forming the Lennon /McCartney of pottery methodology.
		Wedgwood is a name we use to denote blue and white jasper ware.
	www.antiquetalk.com /column217.htm (446 words)

	Staffordshire Porcelain & Josiah Wedgwood Reference Information and History @ Collectics Antiques & Collectibles
		Josiah Wedgwood was born in Burslem, Staffordshire on July 12, 1730 into a family with a long tradition as potters.
		Wedgwood's greatest contribution to European ceramics, however, was his fine pearlware, an extremely pale creamware with a bluish tint to its glaze.
		Wedgwood's basalt, a hard, fl stone-like material was used for vases, candlesticks, and realistic busts of historical figures.
	www.collectics.com /education_staffordshire.html (807 words)

	"Josiah Wedgwood Part 1" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Josiah’s case it was his father who owned one of several kilns, or potbanks, belonging to members of the Wedgwood family in the area that was, and still is, known as the Staffordshire potteries.
		Josiah’s father had left him the sum of twenty pounds which may have been considered a large sum in those days but would not support a young lad in the absence of his father.
		At the age of fourteen, having survived a smallpox infection that was to leave him with a damaged knee and a permanent limp, Josiah Wedgwood signed a formal apprenticeship with his brother and for the next seven years he learnt the trades and secrets of the master potters of Staffordshire.
	www.abcir.org /jwedgwood1.shtml (904 words)

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