JOSIAH WEDGWOOD
Name: Josiah Wedgwood
Born: July 12, 1730
Died: January 3, 1795
Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 - January 3, 1795, born Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent)
was an English potter, credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of
pottery. He was a member of the Darwin - Wedgwood family, most famously
including his grandson, Charles Darwin.
Born the thirteenth and youngest child of Thomas Wedgwood and Mary Wedgwood (née
Stringer; d. 1766), Josiah was raised within a family of English Dissenters. He
survived a childhood bout of smallpox to serve as an apprentice potter under his
eldest brother Thomas Wedgwood IV. Smallpox left Josiah with a permanently
weakened knee, which made him unable to work the foot pedal of a potter's wheel.
As a result, he concentrated from an early age on designing pottery rather than
making it.
Name: Josiah Wedgwood
Born: July 12, 1730
Died: January 3, 1795
Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 - January 3, 1795, born Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent)
was an English potter, credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of
pottery. He was a member of the Darwin - Wedgwood family, most famously
including his grandson, Charles Darwin.
Born the thirteenth and youngest child of Thomas Wedgwood and Mary Wedgwood (née
Stringer; d. 1766), Josiah was raised within a family of English Dissenters. He
survived a childhood bout of smallpox to serve as an apprentice potter under his
eldest brother Thomas Wedgwood IV. Smallpox left Josiah with a permanently
weakened knee, which made him unable to work the foot pedal of a potter's wheel.
As a result, he concentrated from an early age on designing pottery rather than
making it.