He was a member of the Darwin – Wedgwood family, which includes his grandsons Charles Darwin and Francis Galton.

Josiah Wedgwood and Matthew Boulton ( whose Soho Manufactory was completed in 1766 ) were other prominent early industrialists, who employed the factory system.

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.

He was a member of the Darwin – Wedgwood family.

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.

Wedgwood was keenly interested in the scientific advances of his day and it was this interest that underpinned his adoption of its approach and methods to revolutionize the quality of his pottery.

As a leading industrialist, Wedgwood was a major backer of the Trent and Mersey Canal dug between the River Trent and River Mersey, during which time he became friends with Erasmus Darwin.

Wedgwood found this porcelain inspiring, and his first major commercial success was its duplication with what he called " Black Basalt ".

Wedgwood was a prominent slavery abolitionist.

The Wedgwood medallion was the most famous image of a black person in all of 18th-century art.

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.

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.

In 1767 James Keir visited Darwin in Lichfield, where he was introduced to Boulton, Small, Wedgwood and Whitehurst and subsequently decided to move to Birmingham.

William Withering – like Small a physician – was already an acquaintance of Darwin, Boulton and Wedgwood when he moved from Stafford to Birmingham and became a member of the Society in 1776.

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 ".

( 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.

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

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.

* Waterford Wedgwood Plc, the majority of which was placed in administration on 5 January 2009, and of which he was chairman until that date

In 1773, Empress Catherine of Russia ordered the Green Frog Service from Wedgwood ; it can still be seen in the Hermitage Museum.

Wedgwood's company is still a famous name in pottery today ( as part of Waterford Wedgwood ; see Waterford Crystal ), and " Wedgwood China " is sometimes used as a term for his Jasperware, the coloured stoneware with applied relief decoration ( usually white ), still common throughout the world.

Their house became a haven for all manner of visitors, mostly writers such as Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, but also the military leader Duke of Wellington and industrialist Josiah Wedgwood ; aristocratic novelist Caroline Lamb, who was born a Ponsonby, came to visit, too.

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.

After he left Heinz, he focused on three of these: Independent News & Media ; Waterford Wedgwood ; and Fitzwilton ; and later, for a brief time, eircom.

Eggleston's published books and portfolios, include Los Alamos ( actually completed in 1974, before the publication of the Guide ) the massive Election Eve ( 1976 ; a portfolio of photographs taken around Plains, Georgia before that year's presidential election ); The Morals of Vision ( 1978 ); Flowers ( 1978 ); Wedgwood Blue ( 1979 ); Seven ( 1979 ); Troubled Waters ( 1980 ); The Louisiana Project ( 1980 ); William Eggleston's Graceland ( 1984 ) The Democratic Forest ( 1989 ); Faulkner's Mississippi ( 1990 ), and Ancient and Modern ( 1992 ).

* Susannah Wedgwood ( 1765 – 1817 ) ( later Darwin ; see below )

* Josiah Wedgwood ; ( 1795 – 1880 ) married Caroline Darwin, daughter of Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood.

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

* Fanny Wedgwood ; died unmarried in August 1832.

In the period under discussion, Josiah Wedgwood married his third cousin Sarah Wedgwood ; Charles Darwin married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood ; his sister, Caroline Darwin, married Emma's brother ( and Caroline's first cousin ), Josiah Wedgwood III.

One of the children of that marriage, Charles Darwin, would also marry a Wedgwood — Emma, Josiah's granddaughter.

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

In 1947, he married Jocelyn " Richenda " Gammell ( née Pease ) ( 1925 – 2003 ), the daughter of the geneticist Michael Pease ( a son of Edward R. Pease ) and his wife Helen Bowen Wedgwood, eldest daughter of the first Lord Wedgwood ( see also Darwin-Wedgwood family ).

Josiah Wedgwood also manufactured a " stoneware " china in the 19th century.

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.

He left the army and from 1892 to 1895 was a Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Lichfield constituency in Staffordshire ( his grandfather Josiah Wedgwood II had also been an MP ).

Since Charles Darwin and Emma Wedgwood were also cousins, Charlotte Mildred Massingberd was also a second cousin on his father's side.

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.

Waterford Crystal is owned by WWRD Holdings Ltd, a luxury goods group which also owns and operates the Wedgwood and Royal Doulton brands.

Wedgwood may also refer to:

Clovelly is also described by Charles Dickens in A Message from the Sea and was painted by Rex Whistler, whose cameos of the village were used on a china service by Wedgwood.

One of the children of that marriage, Charles Darwin, also married a Wedgwood — Emma, Josiah's granddaughter.

Other notable figures include the watercolour painter James Holland ( 1800 – 1870 ); the potter Josiah Wedgwood ; the founder, bassist and lead singer of one of Britain's foremost rock bands-Ian " Lemmy " Kilmister of Motörhead-he was born and spent his early childhood in the town ; and Darts legend and 15-time world champion, Phil Taylor who was born, raised and also worked in the town.

Adapting their business to whatever people in the neighborhood wanted to buy, as Wedgwood residents began putting in lawns and gardens, McVicar's sold them the requisite supplies ; they sold specialty foods and rented out skis ; they were also, for a decade, the only hardware store in the state licensed to sell beer and wine.

He also made designs for Wedgwood china based on drawings he made of the Devon village of Clovelly.

On 29 January 1839, Charles married Emma at Maer, Staffordshire in an Anglican ceremony arranged to also suit the Unitarians, conducted by the vicar, their cousin John Allen Wedgwood.

The exterior was re-clad in yellow brick and a three bay recessed Ionic portico added on the north front, a tetrastyle Ionic portico was added on the south front, within he added the octagonal domed lobby, also by Holland are the ground floor rooms on the south front library ( Wedgwood room ), saloon and drawing room, and on the east front the dining room, all in the Adam style.

Lustreware became popular in Staffordshire during the 19th century, where it was also used by Josiah Wedgwood, who introduced pink and white lustreware simulating mother o ' pearl effects in dishes and bowls cast in the shapes of shells, and silver lustre, introduced at Wedgwood in 1805.