( One ticket to the private exhibition, illustrated by Samuel Alkin and printed with ' Admission to see Mr Wedgwood's copy of The Portland Vase, Greek Street, Soho, between 12 o ' clock and 5 ', was bound into the Wedgwood catalogue on view in the Victoria and Albert Museum's British Galleries.

, others are held at the Fitzwilliam Museum ( this is the copy sent by Wedgwood to Erasmus Darwin which his descendants loaned to the Museum in 1963 and later sold to them ); the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Department of Prehistory and Europe at the British Museum.

Wedgwood holds in his hand an exact copy of the Portland Vase, the reproduction of which showed the British that they could at last surpass the achievements of the finest craftsmen of the Roman Empire.

The 3rd Duke loaned the original vase to Josiah Wedgwood ( see below ) and then to the British Museum for safe-keeping, at which point it was dubbed the " Portland Vase ".

* January 29 – British naturalist Charles Darwin marries his cousin Emma Wedgwood.

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

Anthony Neil Wedgwood " Tony " Benn PC ( born 3 April 1925 ), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a retired British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for 50 years and a Cabinet Minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.

Hilary James Wedgwood Benn ( born 26 November 1953 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Leeds Central since 1999.

Air Commodore William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate PC, DSO, DFC ( 10 May 1877 – 17 November 1960 ) was a British Liberal politician who later joined the Labour Party.

He was the fourth son and eighth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma ( née Wedgwood ).

Set in the attractive garden village of Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, also created by Lord Lever, the gallery is famous for its British 18th-century and 19th-century paintings, 18th-century furniture and an outstanding collection of Wedgwood.

Curry and others in British government, including Wedgwood Benn, Secretary of State for India, preferred fighting violent rather than nonviolent opponents.

Wedgwood is a British pottery firm founded by Josiah Wedgwood.

R. Sebastian ' Bas ' Pease ( 1922 – 2004 ), physicist, Director of Culham Laboratory for Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion ( 1968 – 1981 ), head of the British chapter of Pugwash, grandson of the fourth Josiah Wedgwood ( see above ).

Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, DSO, PC, DL 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.

Apart from the French author Emile Zola, Czech president Tomas Masaryk, and South African prime minister Jan Smuts, many of the streets are named for Britons: Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George, British Labour Party MP Josiah Wedgwood, Colonel John Henry Patterson, commander of the Jewish Legion in World War I and the pro-Zionist British general Wyndham Deedes.

Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood ( 25 March 1901 Barlaston, England-17 May 1955 ) was a British anthropologist best known for research in the Pacific and her pioneering role as one of the British Commonwealth's first female anthropologists.

* She was Very Cambridge: Camilla Wedgwood and the History of Women in British Anthropology.

After passing on his company to his sons, Wedgwood died at home, probably of cancer of the jaw, in 1795.

* Wedgwood collection at the Lady Lever Art Gallery

Josiah Wedgwood, for example, is described by some commentators as being one of five " principal members " of the society, while others consider that he " cannot be recognized as full member " at all.

The first of these was Josiah Wedgwood, who became a close friend of Darwin in 1765 while campaigning for the building of the Trent and Mersey Canal and subsequently closely modelled his large new pottery factory at Etruria on Boulton's Soho Manufactory.

Wedgwood devoted four years of painstaking trials at duplicating the vase-not in glass but in black and white jasperware.

Instrumental in the popularity of Buxton was the recommendation by Dr. Erasmus Darwin of the waters at Buxton and Matlock to Josiah Wedgwood I.

It was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1766 and the first sod was cut by Josiah Wedgwood in July that year at Middleport.

Yet another route was published, which much to the shock of Wedgwood, did not at all include the potteries.

* George Berkeley, stayed at what is now the Wedgwood & Bentley house from 1752 till his death

These men worked in the nearby pits at Norden supplying Purbeck Ball Clay to Josiah Wedgwood and other pottery manufacturers.

SATEB organizes an annual residential weekend at The Wedgwood Memorial College, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent.

It is housed in purpose-built premises at the offices of the Esperanto Association of Britain which are now located at the Wedgwood Memorial College, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, having moved from Holland Park, London in April 2001 due to financial pressures.

However, in April 2001, due to the cost of maintaining the building, the offices were relocated to a converted outhouse at the Wedgwood Memorial College, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where they remain today, and where one of the largest and most important collections of material in and about Esperanto is to be found in the Montagu Butler Library.

During his time at Heinz, O ' Reilly held roles as major shareholder and chairman of several companies, including Waterford Wedgwood ( 1995 – 2009 ) and Independent News & Media, and of a major partnership of solicitors, Matheson Ormsby Prentice, in Dublin.

He stopped modelling for Wedgwood, but continued to direct the work of other modellers employed for the manufacture at Rome.

In the 1770s Josiah Wedgwood developed a new and larger type of enamel panel at Stubbs's request.

In the meantime his son, 28-year-old William Wedgwood Benn, had also been elected to Parliament, winning Benn's former seat at St George in 1906.

Wedgwood, allegedly consecrated Annie Besant as a bishop in 1925 according to the late Bishop Sigrid Fjellander who was present at the ceremony.

* Billionaire couple Chryss Goulandris and Tony O ' Reilly, the former a major horse breeder ( with a stud near Deauville ) and Greek shipping heiress, and the latter an Irish media magnate and controlling shareholder of Waterford Wedgwood – the couple own a chateau in the area, reputed to be where William the Conqueror planned the invasion of England, and have a major residence at Kilcullen near twin town Kildare, Ireland.

Wedgwood had previously based his business in the nearby town of Burslem at the Ivy House Works and the Brick House Works ( demolished-the Wedgwood Institute is built on its site ).

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

* Wedgwood buttons, made 1785-1800, from the Victoria & Albert Museum jewellery collection.

Dame Ivy Evelyn Wedgwood, DBE ( 18 October 1896-24 July 1975 ) was an Australian Senator for Victoria.

Wedgwood was the first female Senator to represent Victoria.