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Josiah Wedgwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Born the twelfth and youngest child of Thomas Wedgwood III and Mary Wedgwood, Josiah Wedgwood survived a childhood bout of smallpox to serve as an apprentice potter under his eldest brother Thomas Wedgwood IV. Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730– January 3, 1795) was an English potter, credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of 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 sometmes green) china with overlaid white decoration, still common throughout the world. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Josiah_Wedgwood   (670 words)

Josiah Wedgwood II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Josiah Wedgwood II (1769-1843), the son of the English potter Josiah Wedgwood, continued his father's firm and was Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent. Josiah Wedgwood III (1795-1880; married his cousin Caroline Darwin, daughter of Robert Darwin, sister of Charles Darwin) Wedgwood was responsible for the Wedgwood Company’s first bone china wares. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Josiah_Wedgwood_II   (219 words)

Wedgwood, Josiah on Encyclopedia.com WEDGWOOD, JOSIAH [Wedgwood, Josiah] 1730-95, English potter, descendant of a family of Staffordshire potters and perhaps the greatest of all potters. Archive Photos 01-01-1995 Josiah WedgwoodInnovative British ceramicist Josiah Wedgwood was the owner of a pottery factory in Staffordshire since the early 1760s. 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 /html/W/Wedgwood.asp   (738 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)

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, black, 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)

Josiah Wedgwood Josiah, born in 1730, was the youngest child of another Thomas Wedgwood, who owned a small but thriving pottery in Burslem. The new ware was greatly appreciated, and Wedgwood was appointed potter to the queen and afterwards to the king. 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. www.nndb.com /people/821/000049674   (849 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. Josiah Wedgwood died in 1795 and left the business to his son Thomas. 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. www.collectics.com /education_wedgwood.html   (823 words)

Josiah Wedgwood Biography Josiah Wedgwood was born at Burslem in 1730 and became known as the "Father of English Pottery." Until Josiah Wedgwood invented his creamware, wooden trenchers or pewter platters were used at the table by the ordinary population. Wedgwood sponsored the building of canals to improve transport, installed a James Watt steam engine in his factory to mix clays and grind pigments, and was a craftsman and artist who found innovative methods to improve and refine his pottery. Creamware provided the people with cheap, attractive and hygienic tableware, and Wedgwood became known as "the people's potter." In 1783 he was made a Fellow of the prestigious Royal Society, now considered one of the greatest honors that can be conferred on a British scientist. www3.baylor.edu /abl/bldgjwedgwood.htm   (262 words)

BBC - History - Josiah Wedgwood (1730 - 1792) Destined to become an innovative designer and manufacturer of pottery, Josiah Wedgwood was born into a family of potters on 12 July 1730, at Burslem, Staffordshire. Wedgwood was elected a Royal Society Fellow in 1783, primarily for inventing the pyrometer to measure oven temperatures. Wedgwood experimented with barium sulphate (caulk), and from it produced jasper, in 1773. www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/wedgwood_josiah.shtml   (408 words)

Wedgwood Wedgwood and Bentley maintained a connection with Sir Hamiltion which was to last throughout their professional lives, and Josiah himself was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1786. Wedgwood himself was skilled in a variety of functions within the factory and he trained his workers to follow suit. Josiah designed a cameo showing the profile of a slave in chains and engraved with the words "Am I not a man and a brother ?" These early political pins quickly became fashionable, with women using them as jewelry and men placing them onto their snuff-boxes. www.faculty.umb.edu /elizabeth_fay/wedgwood.html   (2411 words)

Josiah Wedgwood (& Sons Ltd) 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. Josiah was not reticent to defend his marks and reputation in court during his lifetime and his successors have followed that pattern to the present day. While early Wedgwood works may be unmarked, the presence of the correct mark is both an indication that the piece is genuine and an index of its age. www.thepotteries.org /mark/w/wedgwoodj.html   (651 words)

Wonders of Wedgwood One of Josiah Wedgwood’s earliest achievements was the creation of a rich green glaze which, unlike similar glazes being developed by his rivals, resisted crazing in extreme temperatures. The first ornamental body developed by Josiah Wedgwood was described by him as 'A fine black Porcelain, having nearly the same Properties as the Basaltes (mineral rock), resisting the Attacks of Acids; being a Touch-stone to Copper, Silver and Gold, and equal in Hardness to Agate or Porphyry'. Bentley's taste, knowledge of the arts and social contacts were of inestimable value to Josiah Wedgwood and his influence was paramount in the international success of the firm. www.fleamall.com /pages/collect21.html   (1357 words)

"Josiah Wedgwood Part 1" 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. 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. 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. www.abcir.org /jwedgwood1.shtml   (904 words)

Josiah Wedgwood , the thirteenth and youngest son of the potter, Thomas Wedgwood, was born in Burslem, Stoke, in 1730. Wedgwood reproduced the design in a cameo with the black figure against a white background and donated hundreds of these to the Society for distribution. Wedgwood also used the canal to transport the finished goods by barge to Liverpool or Hull. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REwedgwood.htm   (851 words)

Wedgwood at Replacements The history of Wedgwood begins with the birth of the company’s founder, Josiah Wedgwood, in 1730. Josiah Wedgwood’s grandfather built the Churchyard Works, a member of the Staffordshire Potteries, during the late 1600’s. 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 black pottery called buchero onto which Hellenized figures could be affixed. www.replacements.com /mfghist/wedgwoodchina.htm?s1=blog&1   (1453 words)

Josiah Wedgwood Josiah Wedgwood was born in the year 1730, the twelfth son of a fourth generation potter from Burslem, North Staffordshire. Josiah Wedgwood was a person who looked far into the future, and by doing this he realised that his earthenware could be turned into a classical style. Josiah Wedgwood died in 1795 but his name still lives and so does the famous Wedgwood blue pottery. www.thornton1.freeserve.co.uk /wedgwood.htm   (383 words)

Fine China, Crystal, Dinnerware, Plates, Gift Ideas by Wedgwood: History of Wedgwood Josiah Wedgwood, 'The Father of English Potters', was born into a family already noted in the industry. In 1765, Wedgwood developed a unique cream-colored earthenware that so pleased England's Queen Charlotte that she gave her permission for his gracious innovation to be dubbed "Queen's Ware". After serving his apprenticeship as a potter, the grown Josiah was honored by being taken into partnership in 1754 by the renowned Thomas Whieldon of Fenton, the greatest English potter of his time. www.wedgwoodusa.com /about/history.asp   (473 words)

Biography - Josiah Wedgwood Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) is the most influential figure in the history of Western civilization ceramics. Wedgwood is a name we use to denote blue and white jasper ware. 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. www.antiquetalk.com /column217.htm   (446 words)

Josiah Wedgwood His father, Clement Wedgwood, was the grandson of Josiah Wedgwood, the famous potter from Staffordshire. (5) Josiah Wedgwood, letter to Camila, his daughter (1942) 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)

Darwin Day Celebration - englishL Josiah’s wealth passed to his descendants and some of it eventually became part of the inheritance of Charles Darwin’s wife Emma. Sarah Wedgwood (1734-1815) was the daughter of Richard Wedgwood, cheese factor of Spen Green, Cheshire. 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   (739 words)

Bloomberg.com: Bloomberg Columnists Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Josiah Wedgwood, the youngest of 12 children, was born in 1730 into a family of humble potters in Staffordshire, 100 miles north of London. By the standards of his day, Wedgwood was, if not a radical, then at least a dissenter: mildly anti-aristocratic and anti- Church of England even as his native brilliance and perseverance won him a place in society that most aristocrats could only envy. The apex of Josiah's career came in 1773 when he received a commission from Catherine the Great of Russia for what became known as the ``Green Frog Service,'' a 952-piece set of china with the image of a green frog in the border pattern and a different British scene on every piece. quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000039&cid=kimball&sid=a9A1cGOG8TM0   (829 words)

Making the Modern World - Josiah Wedgwood Wedgwood survived a childhood bout of smallpox to become apprenticed to his father and later to his older brother. Wedgwood believed in political and social reform and campaigned for the abolition of the slave trade. As a rising industrialist Wedgwood realised the importance of water transport. www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk /people/BG.0124   (254 words)

BBC - Stoke/Staffordshire - Josiah Wedgwood Following a short illness Josiah Wedgwood I died on 3 January 1795, and was buried at the Church of St Peter ad Vincula in Stoke on Trent. Born at the Churchyard Works, Burslem, in 1730, Josiah Wedgwood I commenced work as an independent potter, renting the Ivy House Works from his kinsmen (Thomas and John Wedgwood of the Big House, also in Burslem) from May Day 1759. Wedgwood's interpretation in Jasper in the form of a small sized medallion was freely distributed world-wide to his fellow supporters. www.bbc.co.uk /stoke/local_heroes/t_z/wedgwood.shtml   (790 words)

Amazon.com: Wedgwood: The First Tycoon: Books: Brian Dolan Before his death, in 1795, Josiah Wedgwood managed to get his pottery into the hands of the Queen of England, the Empress of Russia, and the Emperor of China; two centuries later, he is still cited as a model tycoon by no less an authority than Donald Trump. Wedgwood had enormous confidence; having become Potter to Her Majesty, he wrote that he wanted to become "Vase maker General to the Universe." He largely succeeded, harnessing the technological, social, and commercial forces of his time. Wedgwood was dedicated to self improvement and to improvement of his society, and knew that business was a means to accomplish both. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670033464?v=glance   (1989 words)

MR JOSIAH WEDGWOOD V Josiah Wedgwood V was appointed  Managing  Director at the age of 30 whilst Kennard who remained President of the American company became Chairman. Although  reminiscent of the past with the first Josiah ‘s employment of  John Flaxman artists like Eric Ravilious and Rex Whistler in  the 1930s signalled a new philosophy in design trends  for Wedgwood in the Twentieth  Century. Josiah’s father Josiah IV was  an M.P who realised the importance of the factory and  could  emphasise these points in the House of  Commons and later in 1942  he joined the House of Lords. www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk /josiah_v.htm   (6134 words)

More about other Lunar Society members Josiah Wedgwood was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, in 1730, the youngest son of Thomas Wedgwood, whose family had been potters for generations. But Josiah Wedgwood's interests ranged much wider than pottery, and it was those wider interests that engaged the Lunar Society. Upon his father's death in 1739 the young Josiah started work in the family's pottery, proving exceptionally skilful at the potter's wheel. jquarter.members.beeb.net /moreother.htm   (2534 words)

MSN Encarta - Josiah Wedgwood Wedgwood, Josiah (1730-1795), English potter, whose works are among the finest examples of ceramic art (see Pottery). Become a subscriber today and gain access to: encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568250/Josiah_Wedgwood.html   (71 words)

Ceramics Today - Links An appreciation group interested in the products of Josiah Wedgwood, FRS (1730-1795) and his successors to the present day; based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The life story of Josiah Wedgwood, a great pioneer of his time Wedgwood Society of Washington, D.C. F ounded in 2000 and incorporated in 2005, the WSWDC was formed to provide a forum in which Wedgwood enthusiasts could come together and share their common interest – Wedgwood! www.ceramicstoday.com /links/wedgwood.html   (118 words)

Josiah Wedgwood - Forbes.com Josiah Wedgwood became the 18th century's most famous potter through innovative, artistic products and a lean production system. Despite their attainability, the artistry of Wedgwood's products guaranteed that they were still coveted by the wealthy. But what really differentiated Wedgwood was his brilliant marketing strategy. www.forbes.com /2004/03/15/cx_dd_mibp_0315wedgwood.html   (370 words)

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