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For other persons named Josiah Wedgwood, see Josiah Wedgwood (disambiguation). Josiah Wedgwood may refer to several men from the Wedgwood pottery dynasty Josiah Wedgwood, aka Josiah Wedgwood I (1730&ndash1795 the famous potter

Josiah Wedgwood II (3 April 1769 – 12 July 1843), the son of the English potter Josiah Wedgwood, continued his father's firm and was Member of Parliament for Stoke-upon-Trent from 1832 to 1835. Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Year 1769 ( MDCCLXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 1191 - Saladin 's garrison surrenders ending the two-year Siege of Acre. Year 1843 ( MDCCCXLIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Josiah Wedgwood ( July 12, 1730 - January 3, 1795, born Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent) was an English potter credited A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Stoke-upon-Trent was a Parliamentary borough in Staffordshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs to the House of Commons from He was an abolitionist, and detested slavery. Abolitionism was a political movement of the 18th and 19th century which sought to make Slavery illegal particularly in the United States and British West Indies

Josiah and his brother Tomas gave their friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge a life annuity of £150, with the goal of freeing Coleridge from financial worries and the need to support himself by noncreative work, so that he could pursue his literary and philosophical interests. Thomas Wedgwood ( 14 May 1771 – 10 July 1805) son of Josiah Wedgwood, the potter was an early experimenter with Humphry Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 21 October 1772 &ndash 25 July 1834) was an English Poet, Critic and philosopher

In 1807, Wedgwood bought Maer Hall in Staffordshire and his family lived there until his death in 1843. Year 1807 ( MDCCCVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The large 17th century stone built country house and estate of Maer Hall dominates the Village of Maer Staffordshire. Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England.

Wedgwood was responsible for the Wedgwood Company’s first bone china wares. Bone china is a type of Porcelain body first developed in Britain in which calcined Cattle bone ( Bone ash) is a major constituent

Wedgwood married Elizabeth Allen (1764-1846) and they had four sons and three daughters, two of whom married their first cousins, the offspring of Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood:

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Emma Darwin ( Née Wedgwood 2 May 1808 &ndash 7 October 1896) was the wife of the English naturalist Charles Year 1808 ( MDCCCVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Charles Robert Darwin (February 12 1809 &ndash April 19 1882 was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all Species of life Dr Robert Waring Darwin, FRS ( 30 May, 1766 - 13 November, 1848) was a Shrewsbury -based Medical doctor, today
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