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  Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Born at Barlaston in Staffordshire, Josiah Wedgwood was a great, great grandson of the famous potter of the same name.
Having returned to England, Wedgwood was elected as MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme at the 1906 General Election.
Wedgwood accepted, resigning as MP for Newcastle-under-Lyne after thirty-six years and becoming Baron Wedgwood of Barlaston in 1942.
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 tScholars.com | Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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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 Josiah Wedgwood - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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.
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 Science Fair Projects - Darwin -- Wedgwood family
Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) was a noted potter and a friend of Erasmus Darwin; in 1780 on the death of Josiah Wedgwood's long-time business partner Thomas Bentley, Wedgwood turned to his friend Erasmus Darwin for help in running the business.
Josiah Wedgewood II (1769-1843) was the son of Josiah Wedgwood, and Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent.
Josiah Wedgwood (1872-1943), great-grandson of Josiah Wedgwood I, was a Liberal and Labour MP, and served in the military during the Boer War and the First World War.
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 Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Josiah Wedgwood"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 – January 3, 1795) was an English potter, credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of pottery.
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.
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.
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 Wedgwood Resources & Information - wedgwood jewelry
Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 - January 3, 1795) was an English potter, credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of pottery.
Wedgwood's wedgwood tuscany work was of very high quality, wedgwood queensware 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, josiah wedgwood factory and "Wedgwood China" is the commonly used term for his Jasperware, the blue (or sometmes green) china with overlaid white decoration, still common throughout the world.
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 Wedgwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Wedgwood is a British pottery firm, originally founded by Josiah Wedgwood, and possibly the most famous name ever associated with pottery in any form, which in 1987 merged with Waterford Crystal to become Waterford Wedgwood.
Josiah Wedgwood II (1769-1843), second son of Josiah I, succeeded his father as proprietor in 1795 and introduced the production by the Wedgwood company of bone china.
Josiah Wedgwood III (1795-1880), son of Josiah II, he was a partner in the firm from 1825 until he retired in 1842.
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 Josiah Wedgwood - Information from Reference.com
Wedgwood, Josiah, 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 (July 12, 1730 – January 3, 1795, born Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent) was an English potter, credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of pottery.
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 SearchEngine.net - Josiah Wedgwood
Josiah Wedgwood, the thirteenth and youngest son of the potter, Thomas Wedgwood, was born in Burslem, Stoke, in 1730.
Josiah Wedgwood V was born on October  20th 1899, the son of  Josiah  Clement Wedgwood  IV MP, (later Lord Wedgwood) and Ethel Wedgwood...
Josiah Wedgwood was born into a family of potters on 12 July 1730, at Burslem, Staffordshire.
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 Francis Hamilton Wedgwood Information
Francis Hamilton "Frank" Wedgwood (9 October 1867 - 29 October 1930) JP and High Sheriff was a partner in the Wedgwood pottery firm.
Wedgwood was the eldest son of Clement Wedgwood and Emily Catherine Rendel, daughter of the engineer James Meadows Rendel.
He became managing director of Wedgwood in 1916 when his uncle Cecil Wedgwood was killed at the Battle of the Somme.
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 JOSIAH WEDGWOOD (1730-... - Online Information article about JOSIAH WEDGWOOD (1730-...
WEDGWOOD (1730-1795), the most distinguished of See also:
cousin, Sarah Wedgwood, in 1764, and they had a numerous family of sons and daughters.
Wedgwood, A History of the Wedgwood Family (1909).
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 Josiah Wedgwood - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Born the twelfth and youngest child of Thomas and Mary Wedgwood, Josiah Wedgwood survived a childhood bout of smallpox to serve as an apprentice potter under his eldest brother Thomas Wedgwood (1716-1773).
There he began experimenting with a wide variety of pottery techniques, an experimentation that coincided with the burgeoning early industrial city of Manchester, which was nearby.
Wedgwood's company is still a famous name in pottery today, and "Wedgwood China" is the commonly used term for his Jasperware, the blue (or sometmes green) china with overlaid white decoration, still common throughout the world.
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 Wedgwood in TutorGig Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Wedgwood Baronetcy, of Dorking in the County of Surrey, is a baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
Wedgwood was born in Etruria Hall, the son of Francis Wedgwood 1800 1880 Francis Wedgwood..
Piers Anthony Weymouth Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood born 20 September 1954 is the fourth Baron Wedgwood of the pottery dynasty and is an international ambassador for the Wedgwood company.
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 Josiah Clement Wedgwood Papers
Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood (1872-1943) was the great great grandson of Josiah Wedgwood I and Liberal M.P. for Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1906 to 1919, then Labour M.P. for the same constituency from 1919 to 1942.
In 1918 Wedgwood was sent to Siberia to encourage the Russians to continue fighting and not to trust the German offers.
Further letters reflect Wedgwood's lifelong passionate advocacy of the taxation of land values and his support for Indian nationalism (discussed in a series of letters from Lajpat Rai).
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 Dogpile - Shopping Search: Josiah Wedgewood
Wedgwood was an innovative designer and manufacturer of pottery and a campaigner for social reform.
Wedgwood (1730-1795) was the 12th child of potter Thomas Wedgwood, and his grandfather and...
Josiah Wedgewood, one of the greatest names in England's commercial history, was.....
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 Josiah Wedgwood V at AllExperts
Josiah Wedgwood 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 Josiah Wedgwood IV (later Lord Wedgwood) and The Hon.
He was the great-great-great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood.
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 AIM25: Senate House Library, University of London: Wedgwood, Josiah Clement, 1st Baron Wedgwood of Barlaston
Wedgwood, Josiah Clement, 1st Baron Wedgwood of Barlaston
Wedgwood worked as an Assistant Constructor in the dockyard at Portsmouth from 1895-1896 and as a naval architect at Elswick shipyard from 1896 to 1900.
Wedgwood served in the forces between 1914 and 1916.
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 New England Historic Genealogical Society
Wedgwood, married Rev. Edward Drewe; their daughter, Georgiana Catherine Drewe, married Sir Edward Hall Alderson and one of her daughters, Georgiana Alderson, in 1857 married Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, British prime minister, 1885-92, 1895-1900, and 1900-2.
An illegitimate son of the 1st baron Rich was the maternal grandfather of Nathaniel Browne of Middletown, Connecticut, and another great-great-great-grandson of the 1st baron was Maj. Robert Peyton of Virginia.
Their son, James Lockhart-Wishart, 1st Count of Lockhart, a general in the army of the Holy Roman Emperor, was the maternal grandfather of Mrs.
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 Wedgwood Dinnerware
He also had a son (see Josiah Wedgwood II), grandson and great-grandson (see Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood) of the same name.'' Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 – January 3, 1795) was an English potter, credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of pottery.
Josiah Wedgwood II see Darwin -- Wedgwood family; is this chap notable enough to have his own article, suggests he was elected to parliament?
I'm not sure how to edit some of the info but the comments at the beginning of the articles on Josiah Wedgwood (the founder of the company) and Josiah Wedgwood (the first Lord Wedgwood) state that the latter is the great grandson of the former.
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 baron wedgwood - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Baron Wedgwood is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Francis Charles Bowen Wedgwood, 2nd Baron Wedgwood (1898-1959)
Piers Anthony Weymouth Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood (b.
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 Josiah Wedgwood
He also had a son (see Josiah Wedgwood II), grandson and great-grandson (see Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood) of the same name.'' Josiah Wedgwood Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 – January 3, 1795) was an English potter, credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of pottery.
(see http://www.thepotteries.org/people/wedgwood_j_Ia.htm) 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.
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Wedgwood praised Tassie's skill while also noting that his own seals and cameos were better, to which Tassie countered that his were better because his glass paste and sulfur productions were not subject to the distorting effects of shrinkage which affected Wedgwood's works.
Rudolph Raspe, who was also the anonymous author of "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and several works on geology, was a geologist and antiquarian who had been keeper of the Landgrave of Hesse's rich collection of antique gems and medals.
Also worthy of note is the engraved frontispiece showing a helmeted Minerva seated at a carved drawing-room table opening a cabinet; arranged in front of her are cameos and cameo rings.
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 History of Parliament - Projects
Among the History’s papers is the material collected by its founder, Col. Josiah Wedgwood MP, towards the project during the late 1920s and 1930s.
Wedgwood himself explained their purpose within the context of the project as a whole in the preamble to the questionnaires:
A large number of the questionnaires were filled in, or responded to in other ways, by Members and their relatives, and on the basis of them, Wedgwood wrote many short biographies, which were sent for correction to their subjects.
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 Josiah Wedgwood - meaning of word   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He also had a son (see Josiah Wedgwood II), grandson and great-grandson (see Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood) of the same name.'' Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 – January 3, 1795) was an England potter, credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of pottery.
One of the children of that marriage, Charles Darwin, would also marry a Wedgwood — Emma Wedgwood, Josiah's granddaughter.
In the latter part of his life, Wedgwood's obsession was to duplicate the Portland Vase, a blue and white glass vase dating to the 1st century AD.
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Sir Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, Baron Bowen of Colwood and Emily Frances Rendel.
She married Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood.
     Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood married Hon.
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 Josiah — Infoplease.com
The basis of the reforms, which extended to the northern kingdom of Israel, was the removal of all outlying religious centers so as to concentrate everything in worship at Jerusalem.
Josiah Wedgwood (1872-1943): the Commons Sense biographies of MPs from the past come from the work of the History of Parliament.
Josiah Bunting: he's both a soldier and a scholar.
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 Royal Descents of famous people
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury, born 1583, diplomat, poet and philosopher.
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, born 1539.
Wodehouse descends from Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon.
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