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  Darwin — Wedgwood family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Josiah Wedgwood; (1795 – 1880) married Caroline Darwin, daughter of Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood.
Francis Wedgwood (1800-1880); married April 26, 1832 at Rolleston on Dove, Staffordshire Frances Mosley daughter of Rev. John Peploe Mosley and Sarah Maria Paget and granddaughter of Sir John Parker Mosley and Elizabeth Bayley; and was the grandfather of Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood and great-grandfather of CV Wedgwood and Camilla Wedgwood
Francis Darwin (1848–1925 was the botanist son of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin (nee Wedgwood).
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 Josiah Wedgwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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   (776 words)

  
 Darwin-Wedgwood family - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Josiah Wedgwood II 1769-1843) was the son of Josiah Wedgwood, and Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent.
Josiah Wedgwood III; (1795-1880) married Caroline Darwin, daughter of Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood.
Emma Wedgwood; married Charles Darwin, son of Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Darwin_--_Wedgwood_family   (1360 words)

  
 Josiah Wedgwood - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 – January 3, 1795) was an English potter, credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of pottery.
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.
Wedgwood was featured in the Final Jeopardy category "Historic Businessmen" on June 16, 2005 as Tired of his fragile wares being smashed in transit, this man born in 1730 advocated British turnpike building
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 Josiah Wedgwood - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 - January 3, 1795) was an English potter, credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of pottery.
Susannah Wedgwood (1765-1817) mother of the English naturalist Charles Darwin)
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 Resources & Information - wedgwood jewelry
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 found this porcelain inspiring, and his first wedgwood jasperware major commercial success was its duplication with what he called "Black Basalt".
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.
www.bizhisto.com /Biz-Retail-Companies-W---Z/Wedgwood.html   (764 words)

  
 Wedgwood Portland Vase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
In 1790, Josiah Wedgwood produced a limited edition of 'Portland Vases' done in a fl jasperware he called 'basalt ware.'' The edition of porcelain vases is based directly on the original Portland vase in shape and surface design.
Wedgwood's neoclassic jasperware vases have proven remarkably impervious to changing tastes and may still be purchased today as the factory is still in operation.
Wedgwood's daughter Susannah was the mother of Charles Darwin.
netra.glendale.cc.ca.us /ceramics/wedgwoodportlandvase.html   (505 words)

  
 Wedgwood and Clowes Heritage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
William Clowes (1780-1851), son of Samuel Clowes, potter, and Ann, daughter of Aaron Wedgwood, was born at Burslem, Staffordshire, England, on March 12 1780, and was apprenticed at age 10 to the trade of potter, with uncle Joseph Wedgwood.
Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) was the most brilliant member of a family of potters that stretched back through four generations to 1588 (Gilbert Wedgwood 1588-1678).
Josiah Wedgwood and William Clowes have a common ancestor, Gilbert Wedgwood of Biddulph, with Josiah being a direct descendant from the Burselm and later Etruria family tree while William was descended via the Aaron Wedgwood branch also known as the Wedgwood of the Red Lion and Big house.
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 Darwin | American Museum of Natural History
Charles Darwin's mother, Susannah, was the daughter of Josiah Wedgwood, founder of England's world-renowned Wedgwood pottery.
Still widely admired today, Wedgwood pottery was a technical marvel in the 1700s, and Wedgwood's factory was a leading example of Britain's dawning Industrial Revolution.
Wedgwood's state-of-the-art factory, Etruria, included living quarters for his workers, a church and a school, which both of Charles's parents attended as children.
www.amnh.org /exhibitions/darwin/young/wedgwood.php   (129 words)

  
 Port Sunlight / Lady Lever Art Gallery /
After inventing the improved green glaze still popular today, Wedgwood terminated his partnership with Whieldon and went into business for himself at Burslem, first at the Ivy House factory, where he perfected cream-coloured earthenware that, because of Queen Charlotte's patronage in 1765, was called Queen's ware.
For his ornamental vases, Wedgwood built a factory called Etruria, to which the manufacture of useful wares was also transferred c.
Evidence of the popularity of Wedgwood's creamware is found in the gargantuan service of 952 pieces made in 1774 for Empress Catherine the Great of Russia.
www.portsunlight.org.uk /gallery/artists/wedgwood.htm   (662 words)

  
 Shrewsbury, England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Susannah Darwin was a Unitarian and attended the Rev. G.
Susannah Darwin died at age 52, when Charles was 8 years old, and Charles' older sisters assumed her role in his upbringing.
Darwin and his family were regular visitors to their Wedgwood relations at Maer Hall, about 24 miles NE of Shrewsbury and within a day's ride; the estate of 1000 acres had woods, a lake, and sporting facilities ample for the young Charles.
darwin.baruch.cuny.edu /biography/shrewsbury   (793 words)

  
 The Wedgwoods of Biddulph
The Wedgwoods of Biddulph were a younger branch of the Wedgwoods of Harracles.
The first Richard Wedgwood of the Mowle was one of the three arned horsemen in Biddulph and came only after Francis Biddulph in status.
(1653-1695)] and of all the Wedgwood clan {Wedgwood Pedigreesp.79}
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 SparkNotes: Charles Darwin: General Summary
Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England and died at the Down House in Kent on April 19, 1882.
Susannah Wedgwood came from a family of potters; her father, Josiah Wedgwood, had made a small fortune making high-quality pottery.
In 1839, Darwin married Emma Wedgwood, his cousin, and they moved in to a house in London where Darwin could focus on his work.
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 Charles Darwin
He was the fifth of six children born to Robert Darwin (1766-1848) and Susannah Wedgwood-darwin (1765-1817).
Susannah died when Charles was only eight years old.
In 1839, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and, five days later, married to his cousin Emma Wedgwood, who bore him 10 children.
www.allaboutscience.org /charles-darwin.htm   (661 words)

  
 Wedgwood Seville
1) " Wedgwood" -- In the context of Wedgwood Seville
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 first his father — who owned the Churchyard Works in Burslem, Staffordshire,England — then his eldest brother.
There he began experimenting with a wide variety of potterytechniques, an experimentation that crossed in his mind with the burgeoning early industrial city of Manchester, which was nearby.
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 R Gordon, Deborah Thomas. Circumnavigating Darwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Susannah was thirty one years of age when she married Robert.
Susannah died at the age of fifty-two when Charles was only eight years old.
It was during time spent with his Wedgwood cousins that Charles experienced partygoing, visiting, skating, riding and the shooting and hunting for which he was to develop a passion.
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 Darwin Day Celebration - englishL
When Emma Wedgwood married Charles Darwin she brought to the marriage an intellectual inheritance very complimentary to his own, for she was brought up in a family that valued the importance of a good education.
The practice grew rapidly and in April, 1796 he married Susannah Wedgwood, the eldest daughter of Josiah I. In he purchased the property known as The Mount and built a comfortable home for his family.
She was youngest of the eight children of Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood II and Elizabeth (Bessy) Allen.
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 Shrewsbury: Dr. Robert Darwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Her handsome dowry enabled him to purchase land at The Mount on high ground overlooking the Severn and build a substantial house, The Mount House.
Susannah's father, the master potter Josiah Wedgwood, established the famous Staffordshire pottery works.
After Susannah died in 1817, aged fifth-two, Robert maintained close links with the family of her brother Josiah Wedgwood II, who lived at Maer, only twenty miles from Shrewsbury." [King-Hele, pp.
darwin.baruch.cuny.edu /biography/shrewsbury/rdarwin.html   (460 words)

  
 Darwin: A Brief Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) was born on Feb. 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England, the son of Robert Waring Darwin (1766-1848) and Susannah Wedgwood (1765-1817).
Susannah Wedgwood was the daughter of Josiah Wedgwood, one of the founders of the Wedgwood pottery works known for its "blue china" and a supporter of the movement to abolish slavery in the British Empire.
Susannah Wedgwood attended the Unitarian Chapel in Shrewsbury located on High Street and conducted by Rev. G.
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 Robert Darwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He held his experience in Edinburgh in such high regard that he sent his son Charles to study there.
In 18 April 1796 he married Susannah Wedgwood, daughter of the potter Josiah Wedgwood at in St Marylebone, Middlesex, and they had six children:
Caroline Sarah Darwin (1800-1888) married her cousin Josiah Wedgwood III (grandson of Josiah Wedgwood)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Susannah_Darwin   (314 words)

  
 Darwin Day Celebration - englishL
Susannah was the first child of Josiah Wedgwoood I, who had started the highly successful Wedgwood pottery company.
Susannah married Robert Darwin in 1796, increasing his wealth by bringing a large dowry.
Charles Darwin’s mother Susannah died in 1817, when Charles was only 8 years old.
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 Who was Darwin?
Though Wedgwood's employees were in principle free to come and go, they were in practice tied to his cottages, to his insurance societies, and to his wages.
He married Susannah Wedgwood, the daughter of the same prosperous family of merchant potters with whom his own father, Erasmus, had close relations with.
She was often to suffer the blunt of her husband's frequent outbursts of rage, and she died under slightly mysterious circumstances when Charles was eight years old; circumstances strikingly similar to those under which Charles Darwin's grandmother had died years before.
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 Josiah Wedgwood - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Image:JosiahWedgwood.jpeg Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 – January 3, 1795) was an English potter, credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of pottery.
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.
Wedgwood collection at the Lady Lever Art Galleryde:Josiah Wedgwood
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 Charles Darwin: Influences
He founded the famous Wedgwood pottery industry and was a leader in the English industrial revolution Josiah's favorite minister was a Unitarian (Unitarians believe there is one God but deny the doctrine of the Trinity.
Wedgwood hired a Unitarian minister to teach in his school at Etruria where his pottery manufacturing plant was located.
The Darwin and Wedgwood men were generally freethinkers (They wanted to be free from the orthodox faith in the God of the Bible).
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 Wedgwood
Wedgwood family tree (or via here) by John Wedgwood Pound
A History of the Wedgwood Family (1908), by Josiah C. Wedgwood.
Gilbert Wedgwood, born 1588, mar Margaret Burslem [descendant of Henry I] and had issue:
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 Darwinism
Wedgwood, like Erasmus Darwin, lived in Shropshire and was in the process of developing a family pottery works into a major industrial concern by applying new scientific and technological ideas to the production of ‘china’.
Politically and philosophically engaged, Susannah worked to organize her children's education in the town of Shrewsbury, where she and Robert took up residence.
Unfortunately, Susannah died in 1817 when Charles was only 8, and his father then transferred him to the Shrewsbury School, operated by Dr. Samuel Butler, grandfather of the novelist (and sometime satirist of Darwin's work) of the same name.
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 A NATURALIST'S LIFE JOURNEY - Peter W. Graham
Charles Darwin was the second son and fifth of six children in the family of Dr. Robert Darwin and his wife, Susannah Wedgwood.
His grandfathers, the doctor-poet Erasmus Darwin and the famous potter Josiah Wedgwood, belonged to the freethinking Lunar Society of Birmingham, and his father was one of the most successful medical practitioners of the day.
After his mother's death in 1817, Darwin was reared by elder sisters when he was home from nearby Shrewsbury School, where the classical regime of Greek and Latin offered little to interest a boy fond of country pastimes: hunting, shooting, collecting insects.
www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1999/august/Sa22777.htm   (439 words)

  
 Charles Darwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
His mother, Susannah Wedgwood Darwin, died when he was eight years old, and he was brought up by his sister.
In December, 1831, Darwin departed as an unpaid naturalist on a five-year scientific expedition,aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, where he explored and surveyed the Pacific coasts and off-shore islands of South America.
In 1839, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and 5 days later married his cousin, Emma Wedgwood.
www.sjsu.edu /depts/Museum/darwin.html   (232 words)

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