Despite this uncertainty, fourteen individuals have been identified as having verifiably attended Lunar Society meetings regularly over a long period during its most productive eras: these are Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Day, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Samuel Galton, Jr., James Keir, Joseph Priestley, William Small, Jonathan Stokes, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, John Whitehurst and William Withering.

The 3rd Duke lent the vase to Josiah Wedgwood, who had already had it described to him as " the finest production of Art that has been brought to England and seems to be the very apex of perfection to which you are endeavoring " by the sculptor John Flaxman.

Notable Unitarians include Béla Bartók the 20th century composer, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker in theology and ministry, Charles Darwin, Joseph Priestley and Linus Pauling in science, George Boole in mathematics, Susan B. Anthony, John Locke in civil government, and Florence Nightingale in humanitarianism and social justice, Charles Dickens, John Bowring and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in literature, Frank Lloyd Wright in arts, Josiah Wedgwood in industry, Thomas Starr King in ministry and politics, and Charles William Eliot in education.

* In Britain, Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp found the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.

** John Wedgwood founds the Royal Horticultural Society.

The creation of a British horticultural society was suggested by John Wedgwood ( son of Josiah Wedgwood ) in 1800.

This process reflected the work of many predecessors, most notably John Herschel and Thomas Wedgwood.

Benn's paternal grandfather was John Benn, a successful politician who was created a baronet in 1914, and his father William Wedgwood Benn was a Liberal Member of Parliament who later crossed the floor to the Labour Party.

An early neoclassicist in sculpture was the Swede Johan Tobias Sergel, and John Flaxman was also, or mainly, a sculptor, mostly producing severely classical reliefs that are comparable in style to his prints ; he also designed and modelled neoclassical ceramics for Josiah Wedgwood for several years.

In 1797 his wife died, and next year he married Catherine Allen ( died 6 May 1830 ), sister-in-law of Josiah II and John Wedgwood, through whom he introduced Coleridge to the Morning Post.

The heir apparent's heir apparent is his son Daniel John Wedgwood Benn ( b. 1991 )

The heir presumptive is the present holder's second cousin, Antony John Wedgwood ( b. 1944 ).

He is the eldest son of Dr John Wedgwood, son of the Hon Josiah Wedgwood, younger son of the first Baron.

Jasperware vase and cover, John Flaxman ( designer ), made by Wedgwood, England, About 1780, Unglazed stoneware Victoria and Albert Museum no.

Their cousin, the Reverend John Allen Wedgwood, officiated.

* Sir John Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet ( 1907 – 1989 ), politician and industrialist

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

John Leslie ( 1766 – 1832 ) noted a weakness in the views of Amontons and Coulomb.

* 1704 – John Taylor, English scholar ( d. 1766 )

* John Brown ( essayist ) ( 1715 – 1766 ), English clergyman

* July 27 – John Dalton, English chemist and physicist ( b. 1766 )

The first table of atomic weights was published by John Dalton ( 1766 – 1844 ) in 1805, based on a system in which the atomic weight of hydrogen was defined as 1.

* November 5 – John Brown, English writer ( d. 1766 )

* June 22 – John Taylor, English classical scholar ( d. 1766 )

John Dalton FRS ( 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844 ) was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist.

One of the most extensive modern works on the meaning of the Revelation of John was written by Emanuel Swedenborg called the Apocalypse Revealed, first published in two volumes in Amsterdam in 1766.

To put this in context, it was in 1762 that John Harrison's Chronometer allowed longitude to be accurately measured and also in 1766 that the astronomer Titius first demonstrated that the mean distance of the planets could be represented by the progression.

* John Thomas, Bishop of Salisbury ( 1761 to 1766 )

* John Overton, ( 1766 – 1833 ), born in Louisa County, notable political leader who was an adviser to Andrew Jackson and co-founder of Memphis, Tennessee.

In 1766 Sir John Boyd had Danson House built in parkland ( now Danson Park between Bexleyheath and Welling ).

In " The Conquest of the Old Southwest ", it is stated that in 1766 John Baker hunted with Daniel Boone's brother-in-law, John Stewart.

* Sir John Leslie ( 1766 – 1832 ) mathematician, physicist, investigator of heat ( thermodynamics )

From 1766 or 67, John Nash trained with the architect Sir Robert Taylor.

* John Brewster Jr. ( 1766 – 1854 ) deaf, itinerant, prolific painter, was born in town.

British Lt. John Ramsey came to Vincennes in 1766.

In 1766, New Hampshire Governor John Wentworth promised Eleazar Wheelock a grant of a township on which to build Dartmouth College.

It was granted by Governor Benning Wentworth on November 1, 1766 to John Page and 60 others.

Attributed to James Adam ( possibly in concert with John Adam ), it was built between 1758 and 1766, under the supervision of James Nisbet, with extensive interiors ( c1773 ) by Robert Adam, as well as furniture by Thomas Chippendale.

John Smeaton rejected this idea in 1766, suggesting that the banks should be moved inwards to create a narrower, faster-flowing channel.

Advice was sought from John Smeaton ( 1766 ) and William Jessop ( 1787 ) Under the Ouse Navigation Act ( 1790 ):

* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor

* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1385 – John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( d. 1871 )

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, songwriter, singer and bandleader

* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

* 1940 – John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist

* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )

* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

* 1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist

* 1981 – John O ' Shea, Irish footballer

* 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician ( d. 1751 )

* 1724 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor, planter, and statesman ( d. 1781 )

* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.

* 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer

* 1948 – John Mehler, American drummer ( Love Song )