* 1730 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, founded the Wedgwood Company ( d. 1795 )

Josiah Wedgwood ( 12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795 ) was an English potter, founder of the Wedgwood company, credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of pottery.

Born in Burslem, Staffordshire, England, the twelfth and last child of Thomas Wedgwood and Margret Wedgwood ( née Stringer ; d. 1766 ), Josiah was raised within a family of English Dissenters.

* Josiah Wedgwood II ( 1769 – 1843 ) ( father of Emma Darwin, cousin and wife of the English naturalist Charles Darwin )

Commemorating the landing of the First Fleet in Botany Bay, the Sydney Cove medallion was made by Josiah Wedgwood after he was given a sample of clay from Sydney Cove by Sir Joseph Banks, who had received the sample from Governor Arthur Phillip.

A locomotive was named after Josiah Wedgwood and ran on the Churnet Valley Railway.

* Josiah Wedgwood & Sons

Josiah Wedgwood also invented the pyrometer, a device to measure the extremely high temperatures that are found in kilns during the firing of pottery.

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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.

Designers and artists whose work is on display in the galleries include Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Grinling Gibbons, Daniel Marot, Louis Laguerre, Antonio Verrio, Sir James Thornhill, William Kent, Robert Adam, Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton, Canova, Thomas Chippendale, Pugin, William Morris.

As the Industrial Revolution took hold, the growth of mass production produced entrepreneurs such as Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton and Eleanor Coade.

The famous Lunar Society included Erasmus Darwin, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley and Josiah Wedgwood with Benjamin Franklin corresponding from America.

In the late eighteenth century shareholders or ' adventurers ' in the mines included the engineers James Watt ( who may have lived in Polgooth for a time ) and Matthew Boulton, the industrialist John Wilkinson, local entrepreneur Charles Rashleigh ( who built the port of Charlestown, from which much of the tin was shipped ), landowner Lord Henry Arundell, and the potters Josiah and John Wedgwood.

Josiah Wedgwood in Staffordshire and Matthew Boulton at his Soho Manufactory were other prominent early industrialists, who employed the factory system.

Josiah is believed to be Jeconiah's grandfather rather than father, and having the listing of Jeconiah as two separate people would correct the seeming error in Matthew 1: 17.

He currently resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma with his wife Anita Siddiki and their three children Aaron, Matthew and Josiah.

Mat collaborated with Nashville artists such as Trent Dabbs, Matthew Perryman Jones, Kate York, Paul Moak, Daniel James, Will Sayles, and Josiah Bell.

To his Harvard colleague, Josiah Royce, whose philosophic position differed radically from his own, James could write, `` Different as our minds are, yours has nourished mine, as no other social influence ever has, and in converse with you I have always felt that my life was being lived importantly ''.

The best-known of these was Josiah Henson, whose autobiography was originally published in 1849 and later republished in extensively revised editions after the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Culturally, the Bronze Age collapse is otherwise a period of general cultural impoverishment of the whole Levantine region, making it difficult to consider the existence of any large territorial unit such as the Davidic kingdom, whose cultural features rather seem to resemble the later kingdom of Hezekiah or Josiah than the political and economic conditions of the 11th century.

In April 1819, Sismondi married a Welshwoman, Jessie Allen ( 1777 – 1853 ), whose sister, Catherine Allen, was the wife of Sir James Mackintosh and another sister, Elizabeth Allen, was the wife of Josiah Wedgwood II and mother of Emma Wedgwood.

Several actors from The American President reappear in The West Wing, including Martin Sheen ( whose character in President, A. J., is at one point accused by Shepherd of lacking the courage to run for office himself ) as President Josiah Bartlet, Anna Deavere Smith as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally, Joshua Malina as White House Communications Director Will Bailey, Nina Siemaszko as Ellie Bartlet, Ron Canada as Under Secretary of State Theodore Barrow, and Thom Barry as Congressman Mark Richardson.

At Harvard, Mead studied with Josiah Royce, a major influence upon his thought, and William James, whose children he tutored.

Smith lived near Palmyra, New York, but boarded with the Hales in Harmony while he was employed in a company of men hoping to unearth buried treasure ( specifically a silver mine for Josiah Stowell, a farmer whose home still stands on the north side of the Susquehanna River on New York State Route 7 in Nineveh, New York, just west of Afton ).

The writer, Hedley Vicars, tells from his perspective as a soldier in the 90 Light Infantry about the visit to his commanders of one Josiah Traveller, an inventor and millionaire industrialist whose discovery in the South Pole of anti-ice, a substance which releases incredible energies when warmed, is being considered for military use.

He was the son of Josiah and Sarah Eleanor ( Bayliss ) Royce, whose families were recent English emigrants, and who sought their fortune in the westward movement of the American pioneers in 1849.

Erdington's best known resident was Josiah Mason, the philanthropist whose bust now stands at the centre of the roundabout at the junction of Chester Road and Orphanage Road, so named because he founded an Orphanage there in 1860.

Grant joins a pick-up basketball game on the side of the fictional President Josiah Bartlet, whose team appears to be losing to members of the President's staff.

There was a six year gap while ownership was disputed until in 1838 the estate was finally taken by Sir Josiah John Guest of Dowlais and Merthyr Tydfil, whose eldest son would later became the first Lord Wimborne of Ashby.

Meigs was born in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1740, the son of Return and Elizabeth Hamlin Meigs, whose thirteen children also included Josiah Meigs.

The novel was partly based on Josiah Henson, whose escape to freedom in Britain was assisted by the philanthropist Samuel Morley, who is buried in the cemetery.

However, the defeat of St. Clair and his predecessor, Josiah Harmar, whose forces were drawn principally from state militias, caused a shift in thinking.

The first American anarchist publication was The Peaceful Revolutionist, edited by Josiah Warren, whose earliest experiments and writings predate Pierre Proudhon.

Prominent anti-gin campaigners included Henry Fielding ( whose 1751 ' Enquiry into the Late Increase in Robbers ' blamed gin consumption for both increased crime and increased ill health among children ), Josiah Tucker, Daniel Defoe ( who had originally campaigned for the liberalisation of distilling, but later complained that drunken mothers were threatening to produce a ' fine spindle-shanked generation ' of children ), and – briefly – William Hogarth.