Wedgwood (disambiguation)

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Wedgwood is a British pottery firm.

Wedgwood may also refer to:

Places:

• Wedgwood, Staffordshire
• Wedgwood, Seattle, Washington, a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington
• Wedgwood railway station, in Staffordshire, England.

Josiah Wedgwood may refer to several men from the Wedgwood pottery dynasty:

• Josiah Wedgwood, aka Josiah Wedgwood I (1730-1795), the famous potter.
• Josiah Wedgwood II (1769-1843), son of Josiah I.
• Josiah Wedgwood III (1795-1880), son of Josiah II.
• Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgewood IV), (1872-1943) great-great-grandson of Josiah I through Josiah II's son Francis and Francis' son Clement.
• Josiah Wedgwood V (1899-1968) son of Josiah Wedgwood IV

Thomas Wedgwood may refer to several members of the Wedgwood family of famous potters, it was a name used for the first son, giving the line:

• Thomas Wedgwood I (c.1617-1679)
• Thomas Wedgwood II (1660-1715) second son of Thomas I
• Thomas Wedgwood III (1685 - 1739) eldest son of Thomas II, father of Josiah Wedgwood
• Thomas_Wedgwood IV(1716 - 1773) eldest son of Thomas III
• Thomas Wedgwood V (1744-1786) elder son of Thomas IV
• Thomas Wedgwood VI (1776-1809) elder son of Thomas V
• Thomas Wedgwood VII (1800-1864) eldest son of Thomas VI

But the name was also used elsewhere; Josiah Wedgwood's son Thomas Wedgwood (1771-1805) was a pioneer of photography.

Other famous people from the Darwin — Wedgwood family are:

• Hensleigh Wedgwood
• Susannah Wedgwood, mother of Charles Darwin
• Emma Wedgwood, wife of Charles Darwin

Anthony Wedgwood Benn (Tony Benn) and William Wedgwood Benn are descended from Aaron Wedgwood, younger brother of Thomas Wedgwood I.