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FW: GURNEY, Mrs Charles (Sophie Jane nee RAVERAT, 1919-2011)

2011-08-18T07:36:00.001Z

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From: peerage-news@googlegroups.com [mailto:peerage-news@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Richard R
Sent: 17 August 2011 08:45
To: Peerage News
Subject: GURNEY, Mrs Charles (Sophie Jane nee RAVERAT, 1919-2011)

Obituary in today's Telegeraph:
Sophie Gurney, who died on June 10 aged 91, was an artist linked to many of
the leading intellectual and cultural figures of the early 20th century.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries
/8705200/Sophie-Gurney.html

She was the dau of the artist Jacques Pierre Paul (1885-1925, son of Georges
Pierre RAVERAT "a vegetarian silk merchant from Le Havre" * ) and Gwendolen
Mary (1885-1967, dau of Sir George Howard DARWIN KCB (1845-1912, scion of
that gentry family formerly of Downe, and son of the naturalist CHARLES
DARWIN and his wife, a scion of the baron
WEDGWOOD) and Maud Haskins (d 1947, dau of Charles Meredith DU PUY (of
Huguenot descent), of Philadelphia, USA). She m 1st 1940 Mark PRYOR (d
1970), having a son and three daus. She m 2nd Charles GURNEY (who died
before her).

* Some useful insights on her son's website:
http://williampryor.wordpress.com/?s=raverat

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Free access to National Probate Calendar on Ancestry

2011-07-03T20:39:00.001Z

Forwarded for info.

Dear All

If you don't have an Ancestry subscription you may wish to know that
Ancestry has free access to the National Probate Calendar until 23.59 on the
8th July.

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/probate

Enjoy!

Corrinne

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Wedgwood Auction at Skinner's European Furniture and Decorative Arts, July 9

2011-06-15T13:15:00.001Z

From: Supporting the academic discussion of Wedgwood ware and company history [mailto:WEDGWOOD@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Boston Wedgwood Society Ron Frazier
Sent: 15 June 2011 14:06
To: WEDGWOOD@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Wedgwood Auction at Skinner, July 9

The Wedgwood Society of Boston will not be publishing a newsletter before the next Skinner auction, so we send this along for your info.

Skinner’s European Furniture and Decorative Arts sale held at our Boston gallery on July 9th will once again feature fine and interesting pottery and porcelain. Included is an important collection of Gouda pottery from the Ritvo Collection. Phyllis Ritvo wrote the book The World of Gouda Pottery. As always, there is a fine selection of approximately 180 lots of Wedgwood wares spanning the 250 year production. Featured is a large assortment of black basalt and jasper wares. A nice grouping of Doulton is included, highlighted by a six foot four inch Doulton Lambeth faience decorated vase, the mate if which was exhibited at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. English majolica is well represented and includes a Prometheus Bound vase and cover standing well over four feet in height. Rounding out the highlights is an exceptional selection of Royal Copenhagen’s Flora Danica dinner ware.
Preview days and times: Thursday, July 7th from 12-5pm; Friday July 8th from 12-8pm.
Auction: 10am Saturday, July 9th.
For inquiries please contact Stuart Slavid at 508 970-3278 or sslavid@skinnerinc.com .

Pictures of Burslem

2011-03-31T20:52:00.001Z

From the Alexis Antiques Blog: http://aawedgwoodblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/burslem-in-potteries.html

In roaming around the internet I stumbled upon some interesting pictures on a flickr site by Futurilla and I thought I'd share the photos. You can go here to see Futurilla's Photostream or simply enjoy these images.

The is the doorway to the now shuttered Wedgwood Institute; you'll find more about it in an older post.

This is Burslem from Grange, a spectacular view of this very old town so much connected with the Potteries. This is the town where Josiah I was baptized.

The Backway to Burslem, what a lovely ride!
Thank you to Futurilla for making these photos available to those of us who wish we were there!

View article...

Free Access to Census records at Ancestry.co.uk - 27th March

2011-03-27T10:05:00.000Z

Dear All,

It's Census Day in the UK today - ancestry.co.uk - have made all their
Census records (from 1841) free, for today only.

All best wishes,

John

John Wedgwood Pound

wedgwoodpound@gmail.com

Family History Blog: http://www.wedgwood.org.uk
"Save the Wedgwood Museum" Campaign site: http://www.savewedgwood.org

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2010-12-08T08:18:00.001Z

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Sir (Hugo) Martin Wedgwood Bt.

2010-11-01T22:27:00.001Z

Sir Martin Wedgwood

I am sorry to report that Sir Martin Wedgwood passed away on Tuesday 12^th October.

Obituary notice in The Times.
Obituary notice in The Daily Telegraph
Local Press article.
Wedgwood International Seminar notice.
Wikipedia entry.

Save the Wedgwood Museum Campaign - BBC "Midlands Today" 19th October 2010

2010-10-20T01:31:00.000Z

WEDGWOOD SOCIETY MEETING,SUNDAY, OCT 3

2010-10-01T07:40:00.001Z

WEDGWOOD REDUX: Conservation & Restoration Of Objects In The Beeson &
Buten Collections, Birmingham Museum Of Art

OCTOBER 3

Margaret K. Burnham, assisted by her husband, James A. Burnham,
will be our guest speakers on Sunday, October 3, 2PM at Springhouse in
Jamaica Plain.

Even a fine and special Wedgwood piece might need a bit of
clinical attention sometimes. Returning such pieces to their best
physical and visual condition is an exacting and often fascinating
task. This talk will offer a small glimpse of how ceramics
conservators go about this, with examples of their discoveries,
problems, and solutions as they treat objects to return them to what
Wedgwood wanted you to see.

Margaret Burnham has been an Objects Conservator in Private
Practice since 1992. Currently living in Union, Maine, she
specializes in the treatment of ceramics. Her clients include
museums, historical societies, dealers, and private collectors.

Margaret has a Bachelor's Degree in Art Education from Wayne
State University, and more recently a Postgraduate Degree in the
Conservation of Ceramics, Glass & Related Materials from West Dean
College in England, including an internship at the British Museum.

She has worked at the Henry Ford Museum, and Birmingham Museum
of Art, and is currently Contract Conservator for the Birmingham
Museum of Art, concentrating on the treatment of the Beeson & Buten
Collections of Wedgwood.

Margaret is a member of AIC (American Institute for the
Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works).

Margaret will be assisted by her husband,

James A. Burnahm. Jim is semi-retired, and works with his wife
Margaret in her practice. He has been an Objects Conservator since
the 1970's.

Jim holds degrees in History from the University of Utah and Michigan
State University, and completed the training program in
Three-Dimensional Objects at the Detroit Institute of Arts. He was
Chief Conservator for the Milwaukee Public Museum, and Henry Ford
Museum, before becoming Executive Director of Sloss Furnaces National
Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama.

Margaret & Jim are members of the Wedgwood International Seminar.

As always, unless otherwise specified, meetings of the Wedgwood
Society of Boston are open to the public. For directions to
Springhouse, go to www.springhouseinfo.org.

Wedgwood & Wood Family of Burslem – Family Bible up to Auction

2010-08-11T21:03:00.005Z

The Staffordshire Sentinel to day reports on the sale by auction (27^th August 2010) of a Family Bible formerly owned by the Wedgwood and Wood Families of Burslem:

HISTORIANS are hoping a Bible linked to two pottery dynasties will be brought back home to Stoke-upon-Trent. A Wedgwood family Bible dating back to 1630 is going up for auction in America this month after being discovered in an attic in Maine. It is believed the Bible has been owned by two important Burslem potters – Dr Thomas Wedgwood and Enoch Wood – before ending up on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

The book includes handwritten pages by Mr Wood and inscriptions relating to the Wedgwood family.

The pieces written by Mr Wood describe how he was inspired to become a potter, who he hired at his pottery business and what he paid them and detailed descriptions of some of his most prized work.

There is also a poignant 16-page tribute written by Mr Wood's son – Enoch Wood Junior – after his father's death.

The Bible is being sold by Gould Auctions, based in Smithfield, Maine, on Saturday, August 28.

Miranda Goodby….collections officer in ceramics at The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Hanley, said: "The real interest from a local history point of view is that the Bible was written in by Enoch Wood. Without him, we would know a whole lot less about life in 18th century Burslem.

"He was known as the Father of the Potteries when he died and he was Stoke-on-Trent's first historian. He was proud of Burslem and Stoke-on-Trent. He really wanted people to understand the changes he had seen in his lifetime.

He would have been delighted at the thought of his Bible coming to light and there being so much interest in it."

She said Mr Wood was an avid collector of pottery and his pieces formed what is now the Potteries Museum.

He also loved to chronicle what was happening in the world and would often write notes in books and even bury time capsules to let future generations know about the past.

Ms Goodby said: "It is no surprise to me whatsoever that he had written in a Bible. He wanted to record what he had seen. He saved books and rebound them because they had belonged to people he was interested in, which is exactly what he did with this Bible."

Mr Wood bought the Bible at an auction in 1820 and had it rebound. It is thought the book was taken to America by one of Mr Wood's descendants after his death in 1840.

It is signed by Dr Thomas Wedgwood, who owned a pottery firm in Burslem and was a distant relative of Josiah Wedgwood, who went on to found the world's greatest ceramics company.

Ms Goodby said: "Enoch Wood's father apprenticed for Dr Thomas Wedgwood in the 1730s and was a very successful potter. There are about five branches of the Wedgwood family and if you go back to the 1620s, they are all from one family. "I don't think Dr Thomas Wedgwood was actually a doctor but there were so many Thomas Wedgwoods in Burslem, a lot of them had nicknames."

Burslem historian Fred Hughes said: "It is a very important piece of memorabilia. It certainly has connections with the family of Josiah Wedgwood. And without Enoch Wood, we might not have a Burslem. He was a leading law-maker as well as a great model maker.

It would be a great addition to the Enoch Wood collection, which is a valuable collection held at the Potteries Museum and at the city archive."

Mr Hughes said: "The Bible was a family treasure but there is nothing special about the book itself – it is the inscriptions which are more valuable. The inscriptions are absolutely crucial to the history of the early development of the pottery industry."

Mr Hughes said he would like to see the Bible end up in the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Hanley so it could be studied and put on public display. He said: "The city council already has a massive collection of Enoch Wood papers – that Bible would be a welcome addition to the collection."

Councillor Hazel Lyth, Stoke-on-Trent City Council's cabinet member for adult social care, sport, leisure and culture, said: "We are aware of the auction taking place and are interested in the artefact because of the historical and cultural significance it has for the city."

Alison Wedgwood whose husband Tom is a direct descendant of Josiah Wedgwood, said the Wedgwood family would love the Bible to return to Stoke-on-Trent. She said: "Its natural home is Stoke-on-Trent. It would be fascinating to see it and we would like to see it brought back to the city. I am very curious to see what it looks like and what notes are in there. It would be a shame if it was bought by a private collector in America."

Auctioneer Timothy Gould, of Gould Auctions, described the inscriptions by Enoch Wood as "remarkable and spectacular". He added: "The Bible and manuscripts have been inspected and authenticated by an internationally-known ephemera expert."

I hope it can be bought for the City, or it would be a great addition to the Wedgwood family archives at the Wedgwood Museum.

LINKS

Find Dr Thomas Wedgwood and Enoch Wood in the genealogical database here:

Details of the Auction:

Gould Auction House, Maine.

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2010-08-09T07:56:00.002Z

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Emma Darwin’s Radio Story

2010-08-02T23:11:00.002Z

Dr Emma Darwin's short story 'Calling', will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday 4^th August at 3:30 pm. It will be read by Philip Voss, and is part of the "Lost in the Lanes" series. It'll also be available as a 'Listen Again' on the BBC iPlayer for seven days after that. Read more about the creative process on Emma's blog.

Family hope to save museum's treasures

2010-07-27T21:00:00.003Z

From The Staffordshire Sentinel: Tuesday 27^th July 2010

MEMBERS of the Wedgwood family have launched a campaign to protect the Wedgwood Museum's collection from being broken up and sold off. Support for the attraction has come from the UK and across the world.

The museum is under threat after being saddled with a £134 million pension fund deficit claim from the Wedgwood Group Pension Plan. It was thought the company scheme would be taken over by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) following the collapse of Wedgwood and sister firm Royal Doulton last year. But the PPF could not legally accept the scheme as there was still a surviving solvent organisation with fund members connected to it – the Wedgwood Museum in Barlaston.

Lawyers for the museum argue its treasures cannot be sold off because they are protected by "permanent endowment" status, but it will be months before a judge makes the final decision. Tom Wedgwood …a direct descendant of company founder Josiah, said: "The upcoming court case is a potential tragedy for all of us in North Staffordshire. We have had enough bad news, with closures and job losses in the pottery industry. "I don't understand how such a ludicrous case has arisen and I urge common sense to prevail. Why would anyone donate money or family possessions to trusts if the Government can introduce new legislation that means they are sold off? Now we are in a ludicrous position when we might have to try to raise funds to buy back and re-donate all the pieces which were originally donated by Wedgwood ancestors and cousins and previous generations of factory managers."

The family has launched a website and Facebook profile SaveWedgwoodMuseum to spearhead the campaign.

Dr Alan Wedgwood, head of the Wedgwood family, said: "When members of the Wedgwood family donated parts of their personal collections to the museum trust over the course of the last two centuries, this was done as an act of social philanthropy, in the belief the collection would be preserved for all future generations. New government legislation should not be introduced which can cause the subsequent break up and sale of this historic collection."

The campaign team says auction house Christie's has valued the collection at £20 million, meaning the PPF would still have to find the bulk of the £134 million shortfall. And supporters believe it is unfair to hold the museum to account because five out of 7,000 Wedgwood Group pension fund members work for it.

Tom Wedgwood said: "I want to stress to all Wedgwood pensioners that even if the collection was sold, it would not mean extra money for them.

"It would just mean the PPF has to pay less into the compensation scheme when it eventually steps in."

A "permanent endowment" covers any asset which trustees cannot spend because of a restriction in the charity's governing documents.

A Darwin Family Tradition

2010-06-29T20:28:00.002Z

Back in March I wrote a piece congratulating Dr Emma Darwin, best-selling and award-winning authoress on the achievement of her Doctorate – following in a grand family tradition. Soon after, Emma, who has just written a short story for broadcast on BBC Radio 4, e-mailed to alert me to the fact that, in her own generation, she was just but the latest. Her sister Carola achieved her Ph.D. in Musicology last Autumn whilst their eldest sister Sophia was awarded her Ph.D. in Mathematics some time ago.

Dr Sophia Darwin is a member of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at my alma mater Durham University.

Dr Carola Darwin is a celebrated English soprano singer, more details here and here.

I hereby suggest that a collective noun for Doctors could be "A Darwin of Doctors."

FW: The Burke's Peerage & Gentry Collection

2010-06-29T09:43:00.001Z

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Alibris Book Fetch Results for "Wedgwood"

2010-06-27T11:56:00.001Z

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The Selected Letters of Josiah Wedgwood by Josiah Wedgwood Unknown Binding
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The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood, the Potter by Wedgwood, Julia And
Herford, C. H.
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The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood, the Potter by Wedgwood, Julia And
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Wedgwood's Catalogue of Cameos, Intaglios, Medals, Bas-Reliefs, Busts, and
Small Statues: Repr. From the Ed. of 1787. Ed. By E. Meteyard by Josiah
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Wedgwood Blue by Wedgwood, Pam (Cop)/ Wedgwood, Oliver (Cop)/ Wedgwood, Sam
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New “Save the Wedgwood Museum” Website

2010-06-19T21:10:00.002Z

New site set up: http://www.savewedgwood.org

Campaign E-mail address

2010-06-11T21:11:00.001Z

The campaign to Save the Wedgwood Museum has set up an e-mail address for supporters to get in touch and pledge their support:

SaveWedgwood@gmail.com

Campaign Resources

2010-06-08T21:25:00.002Z

How to help the Wedgwood Museum:

Use the E-mail Template or Word Document template to write to your Local MP and the responsible Ministers

Spread the word, ask others to do the same – MPs are influenced by the strength of feeling as demonstrated through their constituency mail. If you live overseas, then just write directly to the Ministers.

E-mail Message Template – Click and send.

Cover letter & Background information – MS Word Template [please let me know if you need a different format].

Thanks to Alison Wedgwood for this material.

Save the Wedgwood Museum - Urgent Call for Action

2010-06-04T12:42:00.001Z

An appeal from Dr Alan Wedgwood, Thomas D Wedgwood and Alison Wedgwood

The origins of the modern Wedgwood Museum can be traced to Josiah himself. On 3rd September 1774, he wrote:

‘I have often wish'd I had saved a single specimen of all the new articles I have made, & would now give twenty times the original value for such a collection. For ten years past I have omitted doing this, because I did not begin it ten years sooner. I am now, from thinking, and talking a little more upon this subject ... resolv'd to make a beginning.'

That beginning saw the gradual formation of a large informal collection of wares and other historic items which was finally organised into an official museum in 1906. Wedgwood managers of the 20th century kept remarkably few of the wares they produced or inherited, preferring prestige pieces to be held by the museum so that they could be shared with the public.

The Museum was made into a trust in 1962, specifically to prevent it being used as a realisable asset by any future predator. Josiah Wedgwood and Sons became a listed company four years later.

In 1986 when Waterford took over Wedgwood the enthusiasts around the world were reassured that the Museum was protected by the force of law and could not be lost. With this reassurance, many people continued to donate generously with both cash and collectors' items. When the Museum gained Charitable Trust status in 1998, its long term future seemed absolutely guaranteed. And it was on this basis that an ambitious plan to create a new building to house the collection received financial support from all sides. The Millennium Lottery Fund contributed £5m, and a further £4m came from other granting bodies, businesses and individuals. This resulted in a magnificent new museum which opened to the public in 2008 and in 2009 won the Art Fund Prize for Best Museum.

However, what the Museum Trustees were not aware of was that in 2005 a new pension law was slipped in, with little fanfare, resulting in the Museum being held responsible for the £134m deficit of the Wedgwood Pension Plan simply because five of the museum's staff are among the 7000 members of the original Wedgwood pension fund. This law had the laudable objective of preventing companies from concealing assets. It was not intended for charities – but charities are suffering the unintended consequences.

The Wedgwood Museum is now under administration. It cannot be emphasised strongly enough that this is simply the result of the 2005 legislation and for no other reason. In October, there is to be a court case to decide whether or not the assets of the Museum Trust can be appropriated by the Pension Protection Fund. If the ruling goes against the Wedgwood Museum the unthinkable would happen. The Wedgwood collection would be auctioned off and scattered around the globe – this would be a national tragedy.

The museum collection houses evidence of a significant part of England’s great social history. It is not just about ceramics, but science, engineering, craftsmanship, social and political evolution - the birth of the industrial revolution. A story of canal building and inventions, of the Lunar Society, of grand artists such as Reynolds and Stubbs, of Catherine of Russia, Coleridge and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Intimate letters from Charles Darwin to his Wedgwood wife, Aunties and Uncles; between Erasmus Darwin and his friend Josiah. A story of liberal traditions, of the anti-slavery movement; of supporting Thomas Clarkson; dining with Wilberforce, of political crusades, the Reform Bill, of MPs and Lord Mayors and of hard working folk in the Potteries.

Selling off this collection would not help the Pension Protection Fund. Pensioners will receive a statutory amount and will receive no more if the museum is sold off. The managers of the PPF are only following the letter of the law by placing the museum in administration but they know, as we do, that it is all simply bad legislation.

We urge the new Government to amend the shoddy legislation immediately and thus protect the museum and other charities which have suffered from its enforcement. It is not reasonable to use the Wedgwood Museum as a test case in law – this approach risks the whole Wedgwood collection if the Judge is forced to rule against the Museum because of a poorly written law. Supporters of the museum from all around the world, and members of the family who have invested so much in it, appeal to the Government to take action.

What you can do:

Write to your MP:

Search for your MP here: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/

Write to the Ministers:

Ed Vaizey Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

E-mail: vaizeye@parliament.uk

Post:

House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA

Steve Webb, Minister for Pensions

E-mail: steve@stevewebb.org.uk

House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA

Support the Wedgwood Museum by visiting or becoming a friend:

http://www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk/

Dan Wedgwood and "Pedal Walla"

2010-05-26T20:16:00.001Z

From: Dan Wedgwood
Hi Everyone,
I'm writing to ask for a quick favour - we've entered our new company into a
Barclays business competition and a bunch of clicks on our entry page online
could help us win a sack of start up funding.
If you have a minute to 'back this idea
<https://www.takeonesmallstep.co.uk/Entry/View/6588> ' on the website it
will help our chances of getting shortlisted and then potentially winning
£50k of funding over the first year.
It's called Pedal Walla - Bristol's first pedicab company! You can watch the
intro video and back us here
<https://www.takeonesmallstep.co.uk/Entry/View/6588> or click this image.
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win £50k
Time is short so to make an impression on the judges before they decide on
the shortlist it would be great if you can do some clicking, and commenting
if you like it, to help us out. Much appreciated.
We reckon Pedal Walla will go down a storm in Bristol and we intend to run
it in a way that creates jobs and gets loads of people involved. We'll carry
passengers around Bristol, at festivals and events, run local advertising
and a bunch of other stuff like tourist sightseeing and private hire for
parties.
We're going to offer community groups and charities reduced rates and
subsidised advertising and we're also going to make it possible for small
groups of people to hire out a bike and run their own micro-pedicab-business
which could be good for busy people that have always wanted to start their
own project on the side, students, or just a bunch of mates who like the
idea.
I'm working as part of the same team behind The Adventurists which is all
about running extreme adventures that raise money for charity. While the
adventures and the teams raise money for the official charities, in this
case Pedal Walla is going to donate a percentage of profits to initiatives
and charity projects in India supporting Rickshaw drivers - the pulling,
cycling and driving kind. A relevant and massively worthy cause which will
have knock on benefits for the families of the drivers and their own
communities too.
Cheers for your help. Grovelling apologies to anyone I haven't been in touch
with for many moons, I hope you're well and would be great to hear from you.

If you're on Facebook, you can join up to Pedal Walla's page here.
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Dan
ps. here's a picture of the cycle rickshaw beasts we're bringing to the good
folk of Bristol:
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Dr Tristram Hunt MP

2010-05-20T20:47:00.004Z

The Hon. Dr Tristram Hunt, eminent historian and new MP for Stoke-upon-Trent Central has confirmed to me via e-mail that he supports our fight to Save the Wedgwood Museum. The Museum is not directly in his constituency, but he clearly recognises the importance of the Museum as an important attraction and national asset. I hope that other North Staffordshire MPs will follow suite. Thank you Dr Hunt!

Tristram Hunt on Twitter

In Praise of the Wedgwood Museum – “The Guardian”

2010-05-17T20:41:00.002Z

In praise of … the Wedgwood Museum

Josiah Wedgwood was one of the of the late 18th century, his life a model of industrial, political and intellectual progress Josiah Wedgwood was one of the remarkable men of the late 18th century, his life a model of industrial, political and intellectual progress. An anti-slavery campaigner, a member of the Lunar Society and founder of the factories that still produce fine ceramics in Stoke-on-Trent, his work is celebrated in a thriving museum that now faces the most unjust of threats to its future. The Wedgwood Museum in Stoke, which reopened in 2008 after a lottery-funded transformation, risks being dragged down by a legal quirk.
When the ceramics firm went bankrupt last year – and transferred to new owners – five members of the museum's staff remained in the pension fund. As an accidental result of a new law intended to protect pensioners, the museum has found itself liable for funding the pensions of 7,000 ex-Wedgwood factory employees and a £134m deficit, an impossible task. The museum trust was forced into administration last month as a result – though the museum remains open and as busy as ever.

Its administrators are waiting for a court ruling which may compel them to break up and auction off its extraordinary collection. Such vandalism is barely imaginable: the museum's contents trace 250 years of cultural and manufacturing history, including many pieces of global importance and immense value. The court could rule that the museum is not liable, but if the sale begins, no donor could ever be generous enough to rescue its contents from a forced sale to private collectors abroad.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/17/in-praise-of-wedgwood-museum

Wedgwood Museum forced into Administration

2010-05-05T21:28:00.004Z

Press Release from The Wedgwood Museum.

"The Wedgwood Museum Trust Ltd can confirm that is has been placed into Administration, although the prize winning Wedgwood Museum will remain fully operational and open to the general public as usual.

The Administration is a necessary step to enable the Wedgwood Group Pension Plan to seek the support of the Pension Protection Fund, the body established to provide a guaranteed minimum level of pension payments to members of eligible pension funds. Five of the Wedgwood Group Pension Plan's 7000-member scheme were employees of the Museum Trust when the Wedgwood companies became insolvent last year, leaving a large deficit in the Pension Plan. As a result, the Museum Trust is now deemed to be liable for the shortfall.

The Museum's Trustees are in discussions with a wide range of stakeholders as to how the Trust's internationally renowned Designated Collections can be preserved, and are determined to ensure the survival of the Wedgwood Museum.

The Trust's Chairman, George Stonier, said: "Bob Young and Steve Currie of the Stoke-on-Trent office of Begbies Traynor, the UK's leading independent professional services firm, have been appointed Joint Administrators of the Trust. The Museum's Trustees and their advisors are now working hard to find a solution to this extremely unfortunate situation. The Trustees are extremely grateful for the continued support of the Museum's staff and its many friends, and remain optimistic that the Collections will continue to be available to the public in our museum in Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent."

It is open daily from 9.00am to 5.00pm (from 10.00am on Saturday and Sunday). Admission is £6.00 for adults, £5.00 for concessions or £4.50 for children (under fives go free). For more information, please call 01782 371900 or visitwww.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk"

Supporters may also consider becoming a member of the museum. The Wedgwood Museum Trust is a registered charity (number 1072442) and relies on the support of everyone - especially those who belong to our membership scheme. Your support really counts.

Membership

Individual membership (UK) - £20

European Individual membership - £25

Rest of the World membership - £28

Joint membership (UK) - £35

European Joint membership - £40

Rest of the World Joint membership - £43

Family membership (up to 2 adults and up to 4 children) - £45

Overseas Family membership - £50

Corporate membership - £200

Overseas corporate membership - £300

Schools membership (Local Authority schools in Stoke and Staffordshire only) - £150

Donations

Another way to help the museum is through a donation. Donations are publicly acknowledged.

Donations can be made in the following ways

In person at the museum
By post
By standing order

If you'd like to make a donation by post please download the donations form.

All donations should be sent to:

The Museum Director

The Wedgwood Museum

Wedgwood Drive,

Barlaston,

Stoke-on-Trent,

Staffordshire.

ST12 9ER.

Cheques should be made payable to The Wedgwood Museum Trust Limited.

Wedgwood Archives: Wedgwood Mosley Collection

2010-04-30T22:41:00.002Z

As much a bookmark for myself as for others, to which I will add as and when I locate repositories – The Wedgwood Mosley Collection: http://www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk/media/files/wedgwood_mosley_collection_catalogue_2.pdf deposited at the Wedgwood Museum.

"Notable Kin - Surprising Connections: Royal Descents and Distant New England Cousins of Charles Darwin and Mrs. Karl Marx" - New England Historical Genealogy Society.

2010-04-24T20:57:00.001Z

Notable Kin - Surprising Connections: Royal Descents and Distant New England Cousins of Charles Darwin and Mrs. Karl Marx

Gary Boyd Roberts

From the New England Historical Genealogy Society website.

This article initiates a new “Notable Kin” series - one that will alternate with other formats and guest columns, and feature some of the most surprising or unexpected genealogical connections that have come to my attention. These kinships will often involve Mayflower descents, cousins of American presidents or British or other royal families, lines to Salem witchcraft victims, international marriages, links between older elites and newer “ethnic” groups, and royal descents covering twenty or more generations. Some kinships, moreover, will evoke two enormous “families,” larger even than the probably 100 million Americans who are eighth to twelfth cousins through common New England forebears. The first such unit is the Anglo-American “family,” extending throughout Great Britain and much of Canada, Australia, and other former British colonies, consisting of descendants of late Plantagenet kings, fifteenth-century barons and Tudor or Stuart “rising gentry” whose progeny formed the “Whig oligarchy’ and “Tory gentry” of late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, were often merchants, dissenters, or intellectuals of note, sometimes immigrated, and sometimes merged genealogically with yeomen and artisans.

An even larger “family” consists of the progeny of late Plantagenet, Capetian (of France) and Hohenstaufen (of Germany) kings, which in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries became in large part a Renaissance courtly nobility in each of the newly solidifying European nations. Over the next 300 years these courtiers transformed themselves into, among other groups, a “robe and sword” nobility in France, Spanish conquistadors and viceroys, papal and other Italian rulers, Prussian Junkers, an Austrian princely diplomatic corps and bureaucracy, a Russian princely intelligentsia, and colonial American governors, ministers, planters and merchants (plus their nineteenth-century pioneer, tycoon, Brahmin and “400” descendants). To this last enormous kindred belong such figures and families as Lafayette and Talleyrand in France; Mendoza and Guzmán in Spain; Colonna, Orsini, Medici and Farnese in Italy; Bismarck and Krupp in Germany; Schwarzenberg and Esterházy in Austria and Hungary; and Tolstoy, Pushkin and Turgenev in Russia; plus, of course, Cecil and Cavendish in England and Dudley, Bulkeley, Livingston, Randolph, Logan and Cadwalader in America. In evoking these two larger “families” and documenting some of these surprising connections I shall depend heavily on both my own earlier research, mostly for “The Mowbray Connection,” and the superb and massive new British (especially Scottish) and continental collections given to us by John H. Cook, the late John Insley Coddington, and C. Frederick Kaufholz.

I wish to begin this series, and an exploration of the Anglo-American gentry-derived “family,” by outlining two royal descents that may indeed surprise many readers. Perhaps equally surprising at first will be the delineation also of the nearest readily traceable New England cousins of these figures. Yet the nineteenth-century British “intellectual aristocracy,” first defined by Noel Annan in J.H. Plumb, ed., Studies in Social History (1955), was often descended from gentle, noble and royal families. And virtually anyone with such ancestry, including most of the modern peerage, gentry and British “establishment,” will descend from first, second or third cousins of various early immigrants to New England. Nonetheless, descent from a late Plantagenet (an aunt, in fact, of Kings Edward IV and Richard III), from an aunt also of Queen Elizabeth I, and from the third wife and sister respectively of Elizabethan favorites Leicester and Essex - such ancestry for the naturalist Charles Robert Darwin is startling.

Startling, too, is the realization that Karl Marx, author of “A Communist Manifesto” and descendant of the famed Katzcnellenbogen rabbinical family also ancestral to Mendelssohn, Helena Rubinstein and David Halberslam, married the daughter of a Junker baron. The mother of that Junker baron, moreover, was a Scottish Wishart whose own mother was the heiress of the Campbells of Orchard and great-granddaughter of six Campbells - of Ardkinglass, Glenurchy, Ardentinny, Kinochtree, Lochnell, and Auchinbreck. Anne Campbell of Orchard was also the great-great-granddaughter of two baronets, including Sir Robert Campbell, 3rd Bt. of Glenurchy, grandfather of the 1st earl of Breadalbane. Sir Robert, great-grandson himself of an illegitimate daughter of James IV, King of Scots, married Isabel Mackintosh, a descendant of Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots, and Edward III of England. A great-nephew of Isabel, Col. Henry Mackintosh or McIntosh, immigrated to Boston and Bristol, Rhode Island. His daughter Elizabeth married her immigrant cousin, Lachlan Mackintosh (or McIntosh), a great-nephew of Henry, and their daughter Elizabeth married the loyalist Isaac Royall, Jr., of Medford, Mass., whose home is now a national landmark and major tourist attraction. Isaac and his wife later [147] fled to Halifax, their daughter Elizabeth Royall married Sir William Pepperell (formerly Sparhawk), 1st Bt., grandson of the hero of Louisburg, and among their British great-grandsons was the antiquarian Edward Walford. Descendants of Karl and Jenny Marx, all through their daughter Jenny Caroline and her French husband Charles Longuet, include grandson Jean Longuet (1876-1938), a colleague and friend of Leon Blum, and great-grandsons Karl (b. 1904) and Paul Jean Longuet (b. 1909), noted sculptor and agriculturalist respectively. One pattern in Mrs. Marx’s ancestry may be repeated in other “surprising connections” in this series. It is the frequent descent of nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental figures from Irish or Scottish fore-bears - sometimes Jacobites, sometimes refugees, often “soldiers of fortune” - of the preceding two centuries.

Despite twentieth-century revisions and corrections to the theory of evolution, and despite the recent dismantling of many communist governments, parties or structures. the importance of Darwin and Marx as seminal figures in modern history can scarcely be exaggerated. Christianity and religious thought generally had to take account of evolution; social Darwinism or “the survival of the fittest” among men, ideas and institutions influenced much later economic theory (perhaps even to supply-side “Reaganomics”); and some Marxist theory lies behind both the “democratic socialism” of post-World War II Europe and various labor movements since probably the 1870s. Even most short lists of “men who changed the world” would include Darwin and Marx - and among late nineteenth-century thinkers only Einstein and Freud might be rated so influential. But although the royal descent and closest New England connections of Jenny Marx can be summarized fairly briefly, as above, and are amplified in the outline below, the noble ancestry and distant American kin of Darwin require longer treatment.

Charles Robert Darwin’s royal, noble and gentle ancestry was fully outlined as early as 1908, in the Isabel of Essex volume of Ruvigny’s The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, fully cited below. A centerpiece of Noel Annan’s “intellectual aristocracy,” Darwin was the grand-son of physician and poet Erasmus Darwin, who founded the Philosophical Society at Derby in 1784, and of Josiah Wedgwood, the potter, of Etruria. The latter married Sarah Wedgwood, his third cousin; both were of rather remote gentry ancestry through the Bowyer, Burslem, Ford and Brereton families. However, Erasmus Darwin’s first wife, grandmother of the naturalist, was Mary Howard of Lichfield, granddaughter of Paul Foley, M.P., a first cousin of Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley of Kidderminster, and of his sister Elizabeth, wife of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford, British minister under Queen Anne, and ancestress of H.M. Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. Paul Foley was a grandson maternally of the 6th baron Paget, ancestor of the marquesses of Anglesey. Thus from a daughter of an older peerage clan springs a gentry family (another branch of which is ennobled) from whose daughter’s daughter descends a distinguished group of “intellectual aristocrats.” Darwin himself married a first cousin, Emma Wedgwood, whose brother; Josiah Wedgwood (III), married Darwin’s sister, Caroline Sarah. Margaret Susan Wedgwood, a daughter of these last, married Arthur Charles Vaughan Williams, and was the mother of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), the composer. One of Darwin’s first cousins of the half blood, moreover, was Sir Francis Gallon, the founder of eugenics, son of Samuel Tertius Gallon (whose mother was a Quaker Barclay of royal descent) and Frances Anne Violetta Darwin, daughter of Erasmus Darwin and his second wife, Elizabeth Collier.

Through Darwin’s mother-in-law, Elizabeth Allen wife of Josiah Wedgwood, Jr., there is, in addition, a pivotal link between this major intellectual clan and perhaps the leading politically active family of the Tory, later Conservative, aristocracy. Antoinette Caroline Allen, a sister of Mrs. Wedgwood, married Rev. Edward Drewe; their daughter, Georgiana Catherine Drewe, married Sir Edward Hall Alderson and one of her daughters, Georgiana Alderson, in 1857 married Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, British prime minister, 1885-92, 1895-1900, and 1900-2. This marriage can almost be said to begin the genealogical formation of the British “establishment” - the merging of the older peerage, country gentry, “intellectual aristocracy” and industrial tycoons into families that fill cabinet, county, bureaucratic, university, learned society, corporate and trustee positions almost inter-changeably. The American equivalent of this “establishment” is the “Social Register” elite, an amalgam of Boston-Salem mercantile families; Harvard and Yale, later Ivy League intellectuals (especially important in the “flowering of New England” and the Unitarian, abolition, feminist, peace, and civil-rights movements); New York, Midwestern and other “tycoon” families; and Mrs. Astor’s “400,” later Newport “society.” This consolidation, like its British counterpart, also produced many twentieth-century leaders.

Turning now to Darwin’s American kin, we can note firstly that among his italicized ancestors listed below, --Sir Francis Knollys and Catherine Cary were maternal grandparents of Thomas West, 3rd Baron Delaware (de la Warr), Hon. Francis West and Hon. John West, all governors of Virginia (of whom John left a large progeny); matrilineal great-grandparents of Harvard College treasurer Herbert Pelham and his sister Penelope wife of Massachusetts governor Richard Bellingham and matrilineal great-great-grandparents of Mrs. Anne Humphrey Palmes Myles of Swansea, Mass., identified in NEXUS 4(1987):69-73, as an ancestor of John D. and William Rockefeller. Darwin ancestors Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, and Elizabeth Jenkes were matrilineal great-great-grandparents of Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, proprietary governor of Maryland, and Hon. Leonard Calvert, colonial governor of Maryland (via Wroth, Wynne, and Calvert); and of Sir William Lovelace of Woolrich, Kent (via Wroth, Aucher, and [148] Lovelace), whose children include New York colonial governor Francis Lovelace and Mrs. Anne Lovelace Gorsuch of Maryland. An illegitimate son of the 1st baron Rich was the maternal grandfather of Nathaniel Browne of Middletown, Connecticut, and another great-great-great-grandson of the 1st baron was Maj. Robert Peyton of Virginia.

Edward Cope and Elizabeth Mohun were matrilineal great-grandparents of William Goddard of Watertown, Mass., and Edward’s uncle, Sir John Cope of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, whose progeny includes the poet John Dryden, the satirist Jonathan Swift, the gossip and collector Horace Walpole, and Elizabeth Boyle, wife of the poet Edmund Spenser, was also the matrilineal great-grandfather of the famed Mrs. Anne Marbury Hutchinson, religious liberal and a founder of Rhode Island, and of her sister, Mrs. Catherine Marbury Scott of Providence. New England descendants of earlier Cope ancestors include William Pynchon, founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, a great-grandson of Tudor minister Sir Richard Empson and third cousin of Edward Cope, and fur trader John Nelson of Boston, a Spencer and Empson descendant. Among Virginia immigrants distantly related to Copes was Spencer descendant John Washington of Westmoreland County, great-grandfather of the president. Roger Giffard and Mary Nanseglos were great-great-grandparents of Rev. William Sargent of Malden, Mass.; and Roger’s niece, Amy Giffard, wife of Richard Samwell, was a great-great-grandmother of Mrs. Alice Freeman Thompson Parke of Roxbury, Mass. and Stonington, Conn., an ancestress of The Princess of Wales and her sons. Finally among Darwin ancestors italicized below, Richard Cave and Margaret Saxby were great-great-grandparents of Acting Governor Jeremiah Clarke of Rhode Island and ancestors also, among Virginia immigrants, of Sir Grey Skipwith, 3rd Bt., and his sister, Mrs. Diana Skipwith Dale, and of Henry and William Randolph, the latter probably the major ur-father of the Tidewater plantation aristocracy. Presidential descendants of these immigrant cousins of Darwin, besides Washington, include Jefferson, a great-grandson of William Randolph; Coolidge, a descendant of Goddard; F.D. Roosevelt, a descendant of Mrs. Hutchinson and Nelson; and Bush, also a descendant of Mrs. Hutchinson (Mrs. Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, I might add, was descended from Gov. [Hon.] John West of Virginia). Tycoon connections, in addition to Rockefellers, include Joseph Wharton, via both Mrs. Katherine Marbury Scott and Acting Governor Jeremiah Clarke (see NEXUS 4:69-73); Mrs. Alexis Irenée DuPont, Jr., via Mrs. Anne Marbury Hutchinson; Mrs. Harvey Samuel Firestone, Jr., Mrs. William Clay Ford, and Mrs. Cyrus Hall McCormick, via Mrs. Alice Freeman Thompson Parke (NEXUS 4:159-62); “Hetty” Green, also via both Mrs. Scott and Act. Gov. Clarke; Mrs. William Averell Harriman, via Mrs. Hutchinson; Mrs. Russell Sage and Henry Clay Folger, Jr., both via Mrs. Scott; Mrs. Paul Mellon, via Mrs. Parke; and Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness, Jr., via Act. Gov. Clarke (NEXUS 4:192-95).

Outlined below, then, generation by generation, from king to notable figure, with standard abbreviations, no places, dates in years only, but full documentation, are the “best” royal descents - those from the most recent king - for Charles Darwin and Mrs. Karl Marx. Also noted are Darwin’s descents from italicized ancestors of American immigrants. The second line for Mrs. Marx, who has various descents from Edward III of England and James I or II and Robert I, II, or III of Scots, covers her Mackintosh (McIntosh)-Royall-Pepperell New England cousins but includes only a single death date for the first eight generations. One final note, I think, is appropriate. When I first developed this royal descent for Mrs. Marx about ten years ago I corresponded with Andrew B.W. MacEwen, who added much of interest from his own superb Scottish library, and the late John Insley Coddington, for whose obituary and a notice of the memorial service at NEHGS see the Register 145(1991):195-200 and NEXUS 8:93. John was delighted and much amused by the prospect of “A Marxist Royal Descent” (and other possible article titles he devised) and encouraged further work. This initial result is somewhat more serious than he first envisioned, but I hope he would have liked it. I also hope many readers will enjoy these “surprising connections,” especially those that extend parts of the “New England family” to Great Britain, Europe and perhaps beyond.

1.    Edward III, King of England (1312-77, King 1327-77) = 1328 Philippa of Hainault (ca. 1312-69)
2.    Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence (1338-68) = (1) 1342 Elizabeth de Burgh (1332-63)
3.    Philippa Plantagenet (1355-78) = 1368 Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March (1352-81)
4.    Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (1373-98) = ca. 1388 Eleanor Holand (ca. 1373-1405)
5.    Anne Mortimer (1390-1411) = ca. 1406 Richard Plantagenet. Earl of Cambridge (ca. 1376-1415), son of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York (& Isabel of Castile), son of Edward III, King of England (see above), & Philippa of Hainault
6.    Isabel Plantagenet (1409-84, aunt of Kings Edward IV & Richard III) (2) ca. 1426 Henry Bourchier, Count of Eu, 1st Earl of Essex (ca. 1404-83), son of William Bourchier, Count of Eu, & Anne Plantagenet, dau. of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester (& Eleanor Bohun), son of Edward III, King of England (see above), & Philippa of Hainault
7.    Sir William Bourchier, d. post 1482/3 = ante 1467 Anne Woodville, d. 1489, sister of Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of Edward IV
8.    Cecily Bourchier, d. 1493 John Devereux, 8th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (ca. 1464-1501)
9.    Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford (ca. 1491-1558) = (1) ca. 1503 Mary Grey, d. 1537/8
10. Sir Richard Devereux, d. 1547 = Dorothy Hastings
11. Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (1539-76) = Lettice Knollys (ca. 1539/40-1634, who = [2] Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, favorite of Elizabeth 1), [149] dau. of Sir Francis Knollys & Catherine Cary, dau. of William Cary & Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I
12. Penelope Devereux (ca. 1561-1607), sister of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, favorite of Elizabeth I and leader of Essex’s Rebellion) = (1) 1581 Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick (1559-1618/9), son of Robert Rich, 2nd Baron Rich (& Elizabeth Baldry), son of Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor & Elizabeth Jenkes
13. Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland (1590-1648/9) = ca. 1616 Isabel Cope (d. 1655), dau. of Sir Walter Cope & Dorothy Grenville, granddau. of Edward Cope (& Elizabeth Mohun) and Richard Grenville & Mary Giffard, great-granddau. of Sir Anthony Cope (& Jane Crews) and John Giffard (& Dorothy Dannett), great-great-granddau. of William Cope & Jane Spencer and of Roger Giffard & Mary Nanseglos, and great-great-great-granddau. of Sir John Spencer (son of Henry Spencer of Badby, Northamptonshire, d. 1477/8, & Isabella Lincoln) & Anne Empson (sister of Sir Richard Empson, minister of Henry VI) and of John Giffard & Agnes Winslow
14. Frances Rich, d. 1672 = 1632 William Paget, 6^th Baron Paget (1609-78), son of William Paget, 5^th Baron Paget, & Lettice Knollys, dau. of Henry Knollys (son of Sir Francis Knollys & Catherine Cary above) & Margaret Cave, dau. of Sir Ambrose Cave (& Margaret Willingdon), son of Richard Cave & Margaret Saxby
15. Penelope Paget = Philip Foley of Prestwood, Staffordshire, M.P., son of Thomas Foley of Witley Court, co. Worcester (1617-77) & Anne Browne, who are ancestors of H.M. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (see Gerald Paget, The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, vol. 2 [1977], p. 39, #s K1813-14)
16. Paul Foley, M.P., d. 1739 = Elizabeth Turton
17. Penelope Foley (1708-48) = 1734 Charles Howard of Lichfield (1707-71)
18. Mary Howard (1740-70) = 1757 Erasmus Darwin of Derby (1731 -1802), physician and poet
19. Robert Waning Darwin, M.D., of Shrewsbury (1766-1848) = 1796 Susanna Wedgwood (1765-1817), dau. of Josiah Wedgwood of Etrunia, the potter, & Sarah Wedgwood (his wife and third cousin)
20. Charles Robert Darwin (1809-82) 1839 Emma Wedgwood (1808-96), a cousin and descendant of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, brother of Kings Edward IV & Richard III, via the Pole, Stafford, Drury, Wray, Laugharne and Allen families

SOURCES for Darwin’s ancestry: Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval, The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Isabel of Essex Volume (1908), tables I, II, VIII and IX, pp. 1-2, 9-10, 134-37, 508-9, 512,580-84; Burke’s Landed Gentry (henceforth BLG), 18th ad., vol. 1 (1965), pp. 187-88 (Darwin) and Burke’s Guide to the Royal Family (henceforth BGRF), 1st ed. (1973), pp. 198-201 (generations 1-6); G.E. Cokayne and Vicary Gibbs, ate, ads., The Complete Peerage (henceforth CP), 14 vols. (1910-59), 5:137-38, 140-41, 325-6, 6:478-79, 12, pt. 2:404-7, 6:538-40, 10:283-85 (Essex, Farmers of Chartley, Hereford, Warwick, Holland, Paget) and any recent Burke’s Peerage for Foley; Dictionary of National Biography (henceforth DNB), articles on Sir Francis Knollys, Sir Ambrose Cave and Sir Richard Empson; TAG 22 (1945-46):27-37 (Rich); F.E. Cope, Records of the Family of Cope (1901), Pp. 5-7, 10, and G.B. Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents, preliminary ed. rev. (1989), p. 181 (Spencer chart) and passim (for presidential connections cited above); George Lipscomb, History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, vol. 1 (1847), p. 600 (Grenville) and The Register 75 (1921):135-37 (Giffard, reprinted in English Origins of New England Families from NEHGR, 1st ser. [1984], 1:& 31-33). See also Josiah C. Wedgwood, A History of the Wedgwood Family (1908) and (with Joshua G.E. Wedgwood) Wedgwood Pedigrees (1925)

SOURCES for Darwin’s American kin: F.L. Weis and W.L. Sheppard, Jr., Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists 6^th ed. (1988), lines 1, 228-29 (and TAG 18[1941-42]:210-18, for the West-Pelham immigrant cluster), 11 (Act. Gov. Jeremiah Clarke), 14 (the Marbury sisters), 43 (Rev. Wm. Sargent) and 29A (Mrs. Alice Freeman Thompson Parke), plus Weis and Sheppard with David Fam. The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215,4th ed. (1991), lines 71 (Randolphs), 85 (Skipwiths), 113A (Mrs. Anne Lovelace Gorsuch) and 122B (Nathaniel Browne); W.G. Davis, The Ancestry of Mary Isaac (1955), P. 178 (Wroth) and V.M. Meyer and J.F. Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 3rd ed. (1987), pp. 655-61 (West), 153-63 (Calvert), 401-8 (Lovelace); R.E.C. Waters, Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley, vol. 1(1878), pp. 218-25, 238-43 (Maj. Robert Peyton), 73-80, 82-88, 93-97 (Cave to Clarke and Randolph, plus Burke’s Peerage for Cave-Browne-Cave and Skipwith, baronets); F.A. Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, Notes, vol.6(1906), pp. 110-11 (Wm. Goddard; Register 145 (1991): 20-21 and W.T.J. Gun, Studies in Hereditary Ability (1928), pp. 122-27 (the Marbury sisters, Mrs. Spenser, Dryden and Swift); DL. Jacobus and E.F. Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families (1952, reprint 1978), pp. 721-26 (Wm. Pynchon).

1.    James IV, King of Scots (1472/3-1513, King 1488-1513
2.    (illegitimate by Agnes Stewart, later Countess of Bothwell, d. 1557) Janet or Joan Stewart, d. 1560-62/3, (contract [henceforth “cont.”]) 1523/4) Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Baron Fleming (ca. 1494-1547
3.    Margaret Fleming, liv. 1584, = (2) (cont. 1557) John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl, d. 1579.
4.    Jean or Janet Stewart, d. 1593, = (cont. 1573) Sir Duncan Campbell, 1st Bt., of Glenurchy (ca. 1550-1631)
5.    Sir Robert Campbell, 3rd Bt., of Glenurchy (ca. 1575-1657), = (cont. 1605) Isabel Mackintosh (ca. 1583-1 667), see below
6.    Isabella Campbell, = (cont. 1636) Sir James Campbell of Ardkinglass, M.P. 1646-49.
7.    Robert Campbell of Orchard, d. 1703 = Jean Campbell of Ardentinny
8.    John Campbell of Orchard (ca. 1682-1768) = Anne Campbell of Kinochtree
9.    Anne Campbell of Orchard (c.a. 1711-1782) = Rev. (Dr.) George Wishart (ca. 1702-1785), Dean of [150] the Chapel Royal in Scotland. Fergusia Wishart, b. 1709, a 1st cousin of Rev. George, married George Lockhart of Carnwath. Their son, James Lockhart-Wishart, 1st Count of Lockhart, a general in the army of the Holy Roman Emperor, was the maternal grandfather of Mrs. Louisa Ann Matilda Aufrere Barclay of New York City (a 4th cousin of Jenny Marx, herself the maternal grandmother of George Lockhart Rives (1849-1917), lawyer, historian, civic leader, and Assistant U.S. Secretary of State.
10. Jane Wishart of Pittarow (1742-1811) 1765 Christian Heinrich Philip, Baron von Westphalen (1724-1792)
11. Johann Ludwig, Baron von Westphalen (1770-1842) = (2) 1812 Caroline Heubel (1780-1856)
12. Johanna (Jenny) Bertha Julie von Westphalen (1814-1881) = 1843 Karl Marx (1818-1883)

SOURCES: Sir J.B. Paul, The Scots Peerage (henceforth SP), 9 vols. (1904-14), 1:21-23 (James IV), 8:537-42 (Fleming, under Wigtown), 1:444-45 (Atholl), 2:184-200 (Campbell of Glenurchy, under Breadalbane) and CP 2:238 (Bothwell), 5:532 (Fleming), 1:314 (Atholl); William Fraser, The Lennox, vol. 2 (1874), p. 257 (for proof of the maternity of Jean or Janet Stewart, #4); G. Harvey Johnston, The Heraldry of the Campbells, vol. 2(1921), pp. 55-56 (Glenurchy), 13 (Ardkinglass), 21 (Orchard); research and notes of Andrew B.W. MacEwen of Stockton Springs, Maine, probably the prominent living genealogist of noble Scottish families; Rev. Charles Rogers, “Memoir of George Wishart, the Scottish Martyr,” in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1st ser., 4 (1876)-352 esp.; Genealogists’ Magazine 19(1977-79): 23741 (Wishart to Mrs. Marx); Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels 64 (1977) (Adeligen Häuser B, vol. 12) 489-91 (Westphalen); Neil Rosenstein, Unbroken Chain, rev, ad., vol. 1(1990), pp.237-39 (Karl Marx and his descendants). For the Wishart-Rives connection see also Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval, The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Mortimer-Percy Volume, Part 1 (1911), p. 185 and BLG, 6th ed. (1882), p. 53.

1.    Edward III, King of England (see above) = Philippa of Hainault
2.    John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, d. 1399 = (3) Catherine de Roët
3.    (legitimized) John Beaufort, Marquess of Dorset and Somerset, d. 1410 Margaret Holand
4.    Joan Beaufort, d. 1445 = (1) James I, King of Scots; (2) Sir James Stewart, the “Black Knight of Lorne”
5.    (by 2) John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, d. 1512 = (2) Eleanor Sinclair
6.    John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl, d. ca. 1521 = Janet Campbell
7.    Elizabeth Stewart = Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail, d. 1568
8.    Agnes Mackenzie = Lachlan Mackintosh (16th Chief) of Mackintosh, d. 1606
9.    Isabel Mackintosh (ca. 1583-1667) = Sir Robert Campbell, 3rd Bt., of Glenurchy (ca. 1575-1 657), see above
9.    William Mackintosh, 1st of Borlum, d. 1630 (bro. of Isabel) = Elizabeth Innes, dau. of Robert Innes, 4th of Innermarkie (& Jean Barclay), son of Robert Innes, 3rd of Innermarkie (& Margaret Innes), son of Robert Innes of Monycabok (& Marion Ogilvy), son of Robert Innes, 2nd of Innermarkie & Elspeth Stewart, dau. of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, above, & Eleanor Sinclair
10. Lachlan Mackintosh, 2nd of Borlum, d. ca. 1661 = (2) Helen Gordon
11. Col. Henry Mackintosh (McIntosh), d. 1725, of Boston, Mass. & Bristol, R.I. = Elizabeth Byfield
12. Elizabeth Mackintosh (McIntosh) = (1) ca. 1721 Lachlan Mackintosh (McIntosh), d. 1723, also of Bristol, R.1. (see below)
13,14. Elizabeth Mackintosh (McIntosh) (1722-70), = 1738 Isaac Royall, Jr. (ca. 1719-1781) of Medford, Mass.; Halifax, N.S.; & Kensington, Middlesex, loyalist and benefactor of Harvard College
14,15. Elizabeth Royall = Sir William Pepperell (formerly Sparhawk), 1st Bt. , grandson of Sir William Pepperell, 1st Bt. (of the first creation), the hero of Louisburg
15,16. Elizabeth Royall Pepperell = Rev. Henry Hutton
16,17. Mary Anne Hutton = Rev. William Walford
17,18. Edward Walford (1823-1897), English antiquary & genealogist, a 7th cousin once and twice removed of Jenny Marx = (1) Mary Holmes Gray (2) Julia Mary Christina Talbot
11. William Mackintosh, 3rd of Borlum (elder bro. of Col. Henry), d. 1716 = Mary Baillie. Their 2^nd son, Lachlan Mackintosh of Knocknagel, d. 1735, (1) Mary Lockhart and was the father of John Mor Mackintosh (McIntosh) (1700-61), founder of a noted Southern family and father himself (by Marjory Fraser) of Revolutionary General Lachlan McIntosh (1725-1806).
12. William Mackintosh, 4th of Borlum = Mary Reade, d. ante 1713
13. Lachlan Mackintosh (McIntosh), d. 1723, also of Bristol, R.I. = ca. 1721 12 Elizabeth Mackintosh (McIntosh), 12 above

SOURCES: BGRF, pp. 198-200 (Edward III to Queen Joan Beaufort); SP 1:440-43 (Atholl), 7:499-500 (Mackenzie, under Seaforth); A.M. Mackintosh, The Mackintoshes and Clan Chattan (1903), pp. 141-92, 377-86 (and any recent Burke’s Peerage for Innes of Balvenie, baronets); Walter H. McIntosh, A Genealogical Record of Families in New England Bearing the Name McIntosh (1981), p. 40, and McIntosh, Mackintosh Families of Scotland and America (1982), pp. 26, 49-51; Gladys N. Hoover, The Elegant Royalls of Colonial New England (1974); DNB, article on Edward Walford (his matrilineal great-grandfather is here-in mistakenly identified as the hero of Louisburg).

Wedgwood Museum Installation

2010-04-19T22:37:00.001Z

Now available: "The Wood Family of Burslem, a Brief Biography of Those of Its Members Who Were Sculptors, Modellers and Potters" by Frank Falkner on Amazon.com

2010-04-16T19:44:00.003Z

The Wood family of Burslem are interconnected with the Wedgwoods in many ways – therefore readers of this blog may be interested in this publication:

The Wood Family of Burslem, a Brief Biography of Those of Its Members Who Were Sculptors, Modellers and Potters is now available. You can order yours for just $20.86 by following the link below.

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Josiah Wedgwood’s Obituary from The Gentleman’s Magazine - 1795

2010-04-08T22:28:00.002Z

This gem is available here on Leslie Vander Meulen Canavan's excellent Alexis Antiques Wedgwood Blog.

Wedgwood Museum at Risk

2010-04-04T21:26:00.005Z

After the sad events of last year, the bankruptcy of the Wedgwood Company and the purchase of the trademarks by unscrupulous private equity outfit KPS, many of us were, at least consoled, despite the ultimate failure of our "Save Wedgwood Campaign" that the Wedgwood Museum, with its priceless collection of Wedgwood and its archive of Wedgwood family documents stretching back to the thirteenth century was safe. The award winning Museum (founded in 1906) was transferred to an independent company in the 1960s.

However, as reported by the BBC and others in the last few days, it has not escaped the financial mess that the O'Reilly family drove Waterford Wedgwood plc to. The pension liabilities for former Wedgwood workers were not taken on by KPS – the Museum staff are party to shared pension arrangements and the Museum, a charitable Trust has now been handled a bill for £130,000,000.

The BBC have reported:

The Wedgwood Museum has been served with a letter transferring a £130m pension debt from the collapsed pottery maker.

Waterford Wedgwood Plc went into administration in January last year with a pension fund shortfall.

The museum in Stoke-on-Trent is a trust and is separate from the pottery firm, but linked by a shared pension fund.

Chair of the Wedgwood Group Pension Plan, Chris Johnson, said the notice was served "with very great regret". The government's Pension Protection Fund administrators say as the museum remains in operation, taxpayers can be protected by recouping losses from the trust.

Mr Johnson said legal advice given to trustees is that the trust can be held liable for the pension debt.

But the trust is considering a legal challenge to the notice, and says selling off the collection would not mean "an extra penny" to pensioners.

The museum charts 250 years of British social, design and industrial history via the Wedgwood products ranges.

In June last year museum staff were celebrating after winning a £100,000 Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries.

But now they face having the collection, some of which is described as "priceless", being sold-off.

Pension trustees say they have to serve the museum with the debt to benefit from the Pension Protection Fund.

Mr Johnson said: "I have been a Wedgwood man forever, and I'm passionate about its history and treasure."But we have to obey the law and obey due process."

The museum has been displaying its exhibits since 1906 and became a trust in 1962.

Trust chairman George Stonier said: "We are absolutely determined to do everything we can to preserve our museum."

I have every sympathy with the company's pensioners – many of whom will have, as shareholders, like me, lost money already. However the Wedgwood collection is part of our country's heritage and must not be dispersed. North Staffordshire has lost so much already – the Government did not back the family's attempt to save Wedgwood – they must act this time.

A New Doctor Darwin - Congratulations Emma

2010-03-27T22:16:00.003Z

Emma Darwin is the award winning author of The Mathematics of Love and A Secret Alchemy – a direct descendant of Charles Darwin and Emma Wedgwood she has just been awarded her PhD in creative writing. Congratulations Dr Darwin.

Emma's books:

Synopsis (from Waterstones.com)

From the Suffolk countryside to the old Basque towns of Spain, Emma Darwin's unforgettable debut tells the astoundingly moving story of Stephen, a veteran of Waterloo, whose suffering and secret lost happiness is transformed by love. Gorgeously written, fascinating and engrossing, THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE is a sexy, heart-breaking, glorious novel by a major new literary star.

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Two murdered princes; a powerful queen betrayed; a nobleman riding towards his certain death...The story of the Princes in the Tower has been one of the most fascinating - and most brutal - murder mysteries in history for more than five hundred years. In a brilliant feat of historical daring, Emma Darwin has recreated the terrible, exhilarating world of the two youngest victims of the War of the Roses: the power struggles and passion that lay behind their birth, the danger into which they fell, the profoundly moving days before their imprisonment, and the ultimate betrayal of their innocence. In A Secret Alchemy, three voices speak: that of Elizabeth Woodville, the beautiful widow of King Edward IV; of her brother Anthony, surrogate father to the doomed Prince Edward and his brother Dickon; and that of present-day historian Una Pryor. Orphaned, and herself brought up in a family where secrets and rivalries threaten her world, Una's experience of tragedy, betrayal and lost love help her unlock the long-buried secrets that led to the princes' deaths. Weaving their stories together, Emma Darwin brilliantly evokes how the violence and glamour of past ages live on within our present.

Emma's ancestry

Emma was born and brought up in London, she is the daughter of Henry Galton Darwin, a Foreign Office Lawyer, son of Sir Charles Galton Darwin who was the son of George Howard Darwin – the son of Charles Darwin, author of On the Origin of Species and Descent of Man, and his wife Emma Wedgwood. He was, of course, also a grandson of Josiah Wedgwood I.

Links

· Home Page: http://www.emmadarwin.com/

· Blog: http://emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitchofwriting/

· Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Darwin_(novelist)

· Profile in the Daily Telegraph (18^th March 2007)

Coming soon - Biographies

2010-03-23T21:17:00.003Z

Firstly apologies for the dearth of blog posts – little Thomas is now not so little, and as a bustling toddler takes up rather a lot of time, which is how it should be. Additionally I have recommenced my PhD research….which fills up a few spare minutes! But, I haven't forgotten this blog, or family history. Since the Geoctieies.com website was taken down, and the new site established, whilst the genealogical content is comprehensive and ever updating thanks to the sterling work of Philip Richards, my partner on the site, many of the biographical information previously available on the old site has been lost. So, I will start to build that again – initially through this blog and then as a composite web page on the site.

Josiah Wedgwood and Charles Darwin have of course already been featured prominently – there are many others and I will start with an unusual angle: Actors! So, coming soon, Cary Elwes, Geoffrey Edward Spencer Lovatt and thespian siblings Skandar and Soumaya Keynes

The format will be simple; I will set out their connection to the Wedgwood clan – linking to Philip's database - and then provide links to Dictionary of National Biography, Who's Who, and Wikipedia.

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Dr Josiah Francis Wedgwood (1950-2009)

2010-01-01T22:42:00.004Z

I have just read the very sad news that Dr Josiah Francis Wedgwood passed away on November 27th. I corresponded with Dr Wedgwood last year during the fight for control of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons - you may remember I highlighted a letter he had written to the Financial Times on the matter.

The following obituary was published in The Times:

Dr Josiah Francis Wedgwood was a key figure in the US National Institutes of Healths’ (NIH) studies on diseases of the immune system.

He was the chief of the immunodeficiency and immunopathology section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). He championed the growth of research on primary immunodeficiency diseases (PID) and autoimmunity.

He was also the driving force behind the establishment of USIDNET, a consortium of PID researchers in the US, and pioneered a paradigm shift in funding of clinical research on PID, including the award of grants that led to the discovery of novel genes involved in PID.

He supported strategies to optimise the success of stem cell transplantation and gene therapy for PID and championed the establishment of an NIH registry for patients with PID and a repository of cell lines, tissue and DNA derived from PID patients that is now available to researchers worldwide.

He was in addition a tireless advocate for trainees and nurtured the steady growth of the PID research community through new training programmes.

He was also a key player in NIAID’s programme on autoimmune disease. He was instrumental in the renewal and expansion of the NIAID autoimmunity centres of excellence to include nine academic centres.

He was involved in the design and support of numerous early phase studies of novel therapeutics in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, autoimmune diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, pemphigus vulgaris, and Sjogren’s syndrome. The therapeutic agents under investigation ranged from marketed drugs and biologics to vitamins and novel compounds still in development.

Wedgwood was masterful in bringing together the multidisciplinary teams required to design, implement and conduct such studies. As chair of the trans-NIH Autoimmune Diseases Co-ordinating Committee, he worked closely with representatives of more than 30 federal agencies, private research foundations and patient advocacy groups.

Josiah Francis Wedgwood was born in 1950. He was a direct descendant of the 18th-century founder of the Wedgwood pottery company that introduced black basalt, Jasperware, and bone china to the English trade from 1754. His grandfather, Josiah Wedgwood, directed the firm from 1930 to 1968. His great-grandfather, Josiah Clement Wedgwood, was a Labour MP and a noted parliamentary gadfly, supporting Winston Churchill in sounding the alarm about Nazi aggression and urging that Western countries provide a refuge for Jews fleeing Europe.

The US branch of the Wedgwood family dates to the Second World War. Josiah Clement Wedgwood was targeted for arrest in the event of a Nazi invasion of England, so he sent his children to be educated in the US.

Josiah Francis Wedgwood graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, where he took his PhD in biochemistry in 1978 for studies on the role of phosphorus in cell membrane transport. He received his MD in 1980 from George Washington University Medical School. He then served on the academic faculties of the Mount Sinai Medical Centre in New York and the Yale School of Medicine.

He was board-certified in paediatrics, paediatric immunology and infectious diseases, neonatology and perinatology. He was a member of the American Academy of Paediatrics and received the academy’s Basil O’Connor award. He was the primary author of numerous articles in medical journals and chapters on neonatology, immunology and paediatric infectious diseases.

Wedgwood is survived by his wife of 27 years, Ruth Wedgwood, the Burling Professor of International Law at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, and the US member of the UN Human Rights Committee, and by their son. The immediate cause of his death was given as cardiovascular collapse.

Dr Josiah Francis Wedgwood, physician and expert on diseases of the immune system, was born on February 1, 1950. He died on November 27, 2009, aged 59

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"Movember 2009" - Fund raising for "The Prostate Cancer Charity - please sponsor my team.

2009-11-07T23:02:00.001Z

Hi,

I am part of a team of colleagues who have pledged to grow a moustache this year for Movember. I have decided to put down my razor for one month (November) and help raise awareness and funds for men's health – specifically prostate cancer.

What many people don't appreciate is that one man dies every hour of prostate cancer in the UK, more than 35,000 men will be diagnosed this year and that prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK. Facts like these have convinced me I should get involved and I am hoping that you will support me.

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“THE WEDGWOODS AND THE DARWINS - THE MARRIAGE OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY” – Conference @ The Wedgwood Museum

2009-11-04T19:27:00.004Z

THE WEDGWOODS AND THE DARWINS - THE MARRIAGE OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY Sunday 15th November 2009

A symposium to be held at the Wedgwood Museum - Winner of The Art Fund Prize and Museum of the Year 2009

The voyage of the Beagle took Charles Darwin to the other side of the Earth, seeking answers to the mystery of man's origins. Yet so often, his questions would lead him back to Staffordshire, to the land of his grandfathers, Josiah Wedgwood and Erasmus Darwin, and to intense discussions with his Wedgwood kin.

At the end of a year in which Darwin's bicentenary and the 150th anniversary of 'Origins' have caused this modest giant of science to be examined, the Wedgwood Museum-Winner of the Art Fund Prize and Museum of the Year 2009 - presents a symposium illustrating the evolution of the relationship between the Wedgwoods and the Darwins.

Programme

Museum opens 10.00am

Welcome and Coffee 10.15-10.45

10.45 Introduction by Alison Wedgwood

11.00am My favourite Aesculapius Gaye Blake Roberts, Director of the Wedgwood Museum, discusses the beginnings of the relationship between the Wedgwoods and the Darwins and the friendship between Josiah Wedgwood and Erasmus Darwin.

11.45am "...No blue-printed plates like mine in Staffordshire." Lynn Miller, Wedgwood Museum Information Officer, assesses this statement by Josiah ll with reference to the Darwin waterlily pattern and other botanical prints of the early 19th century.

12.30-2.00 pm Lunch and an opportunity to view the award-winning museum galleries.

2.00pm "Get up your steam and have a ramble in Wales." Museum Archivist, Kevin Salt illustrates Charles Darwin's sorties into Snowdonia from boyhood to old age.

2.45pm "Near and Dear Friends" Deputy Learning and Access Manager, Sharon Gater considers the extent to which Charles Darwin's ideas were influenced by family members.

3.30pm Conclusion by Alan Wedgwood

Tickets cost £25 - Concessions £15 (Students, Seniors and Friends of the Wedgwood Museum). Ticket price includes lunch (please indicate any dietary requirements on the attached booking form).

To book your place at this unique event please forward payment and a completed booking form to:

Darwin Symposium
The Wedgwood Museum,
Wedgwood Drive,
Barlaston,
Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire. ST12 9ER

In light of postal disruptions bookings can also be made via email. Please email bookings@wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk

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Thomas Wedgwood IV in "White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles"

2009-09-29T12:15:00.004Z

White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles

Diana Edwards and Rodney Hampson

ISBN13: 9781851494804

ISBN:

1851494804

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Antique Collectors' Club

TERRITORY: USA and Canada

Size: 8.75 in

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PAGES: 336

ILLUSTRATIONS: 205 col., 265 b&w

PRICE: $89.50

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· The first book on the subject in more than thirty years and the very first book to encompass salt-glazed stoneware in Britain, not just in Staffordshire

· Presents original research on the history of 150 eighteenth-century potters

· More than 400 illustrations; 200 color and 240 black and white of pieces in public and private collections, and previously unpublished archaeological finds

· In-depth account of Thomas Wedgwood of Overhouse, salt-glaze potter and elder brother of Josiah Wedgwood

· Includes a chapter on salt-glazed ware for the American market

White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles is the first book on salt-glazed stoneware since 1971. This book is the first to cover salt-glazed production in the whole of the British Isles, not simply the production in Staffordshire.

Beginning with the introduction of salt-glazed stoneware into England by German and Dutch potters in the mid-seventeenth century, and John Dwight's patent of 1672, this book goes on to discuss in detail early industrial stoneware, the manufacture from raw materials to producing and decorating the pots, to marketing and distribution, and even the history of collecting salt-glazed stoneware. There is a chapter on the American market and the final chapter identifies, for the first time, a number of manufacturers who produced salt-glazed stoneware, attributions made possible by the excavations of pottery sites. Beyond that, there are five invaluable appendices with details of all manufacturers of salt-glazed stoneware identified thus far, price lists from the eighteenth century and an extensive bibliography.

Diana Edwards is a highly-respected name in the field of ceramics and is the author of numerous books on the subject such as Black Basalt and English Dry-bodied Stoneware (with Rodney Hampson), also published by the Antique Collectors' Club.

Rodney Hampson, an independent ceramic historian, has written four books as well as numerous articles and in-depth special studies on Potteries subjects. He was formerly Research Fellow in Ceramic History at Keele University and Joint Editor of the Journal of the Northern Ceramic Society.

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Darwin biopic to launch at Toronto Film Festival

2009-07-19T09:03:00.002Z

From the BBC, July 15^th.

A British drama about scientist Charles Darwin has been selected to launch this year's Toronto Film Festival.

Creation, which stars real-life couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connolly as Darwin and his wife Emma, will open the event on 10 September.

The release of the partly BBC-funded film - out in the UK on 25 September - coincides with the 200th anniversary of the evolution pioneer's birth.

The Toronto Film Festival runs until 29 September in Canada's economic capital.

Directed by Jon Amiel, Creation explores how Darwin came to write his groundbreaking work On the Origins of Species.

The film shows the young scientist grapple with his wife's deep religious convictions and his grief over the death of his young daughter.

Links: http://www.darwin200.org/news/darwin-film.html

Tom Wedgwood writes to Staffordshire Sentinel Re: Wedgwood Museum: "Don't thank the old management".

2009-06-30T11:01:00.003Z

Don't thank the old management

Tuesday, June 30, 2009.

PRAISE TRUST: Mike Wolfe's praise for the staff, building and success of the Wedgwood museum is surely appreciated by all involved.

I'd like to add one caveat, which heaps even more praise on the trust, museum team and Gaye Blake-Rogers for their extreme foresight and diligence, but decidedly less on the old Waterford Wedgwood management.

The Wedgwood Collection, the archives and artefacts were actually put into a trust before Waterford took over in 1988, so let's not thank the old board for their one kind act, this was something the Wedgwood family, who had donated many of the artefacts for safe-keeping over the last century, worked very hard to make happen.

Waterford Wedgwood and its Irish owners would certainly have sold off the contents if Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd owned them, just as they have attempted with other collections. We, in the Wedgwood family, are absolutely thrilled at the success of the museum. My father Alan Wedgwood has been deeply saddened by the turn of events in Stoke and the one thing he has put his all into has been the museum. My grandfather's trust the C.T Wedgwood Trust, (although of course he was called Tom because we're not very original with names), helped fund the initial feasibility studies to attract the Heritage Lottery Funding – for this we are proud, and the museum is set to thank the family with a Tom Wedgwood reading room to honour the trust.

Be assured that the Wedgwood family will never desert Wedgwood, its collections nor those Stoke- based employees and ex-employees.

TOM D WEDGWOOD

Cocknage

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/letters/Don-t-thank-old-management/article-1123010-detail/article.html

New Wedgwood Website

2009-06-27T20:45:00.001Z

The "Wedgwood Family Worldwide" site was set up back in 1996- hosted free by Geocities. In 1999 Yahoo, who took Geocities over some years ago announced that they would be closing down this facility. A new home had to be found. I have to admit at this point that hasty action on my part seems to have led to the loss of some of the old content as well. Much of it – Biographies etc – will be migrated to the new site at http://www.familyhistorian.info in due course. The Wedgwood Genealogical charts will not be carried over since they have in the most part been superseded by Philip Richards' comprehensive database which is now hosted here: http://www.familyhistorian.info/exciting.

Keep an eye on this blog for news of future developments.

Wedgwood Museum scoops The Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries

2009-06-19T21:01:00.002Z

Art Fund Press Release: 18/6/09

Museum celebrating iconic name of British ceramics claims £100,000 Prize
Internationally renowned collection covers 250 years of British creative, social and manufacturing history.
Win reaffirms Stoke-on-Trent's position at the heart of one of the UK's principal manufacturing traditions The Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent tonight won the £100,000 Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries. The prize was announced by Chair of Judges, David Puttnam, at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London.
The judges, who included artist Grayson Perry and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, described themselves as 'bowled over' by the museum. They praised the way it uses its internationally-renowned collection to take visitors on a 250-year tour of British social, design and industrial history, while remaining firmly embedded in the local community.
David Puttnam commented: "This Museum is extraordinary for so many reasons and we were all but unanimous in our decision.

"The Wedgwood Museum brilliantly highlights the marriage of art, design, manufacturing and commerce; a marriage that resonates more today than at possibly any time in the intervening years. In every respect it fully meets our criteria of what a 21st century museum should aspire to be."

Andrew Macdonald, Acting Director of The Art Fund, said: "The Wedgwood Museum magnificently celebrates the extraordinary achievement of Britain's industrial history. It is a richly deserving winner of this Prize, and its victory could not have come at a better time for the area, after all the uncertainty there has been over the future of the factory which still operates alongside the museum."

This year the public was also a judge in the first ever People's Choice poll. Over 27,000 people voted on guardian.co.uk, also choosing The Wedgwood Museum as their clear winner.
Owned and run by an independent charitable trust, the new £10 million museum is housed on the historic manufacturing site of Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, and tells the story of one of the world's most recognisable consumer brands. Visitors to the museum not only see ceramics but also a range of manuscripts, documentation, factory equipment, original models and fine art related to this world-renowned ceramics company.
Three other outstanding museums were shortlisted for the Art Fund Prize: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, for its Centre of New Enlightenment; Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham and Ruthin Craft Centre in North Wales.
In addition to the cheque for £100,000, The Wedgwood Museum will also receive the Art Fund Prize Bowl, enamelled in silver by the craftsman Vladimir Böhm, which they can display for one year.
The 2009 judging panel comprised:
David Puttnam (chair) film-maker and educationalist
Robert Crawford, outgoing Director General of the Imperial War Museum
Sally Osman, communications consultant and former Director of Communications at the BBC
Grayson Perry, Turner Prize-winning artist
Mathematician and author Marcus du Sautoy
Maggie Semple, Chief Executive of The Experience Corps
Journalist and broadcaster Mary Ann Sieghart

This is the second year that The Art Fund, the UK's leading independent art charity has sponsored this major arts prize, which is open to all accredited museums and galleries in the UK. The Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries recognises and stimulates originality and excellence in museums and galleries and aims to increase public appreciation and enjoyment of all they have to offer.
Last year's winner was The Lightbox museum and gallery in Woking. Previous winners of the then Gulbenkian Prize include Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2007), Brunel's ss Great Britain, Bristol (2006), Big Pit: National Mining Museum of Wales, Blaenafon (2005), The Scottish Gallery of Modern Art for Landform by Charles Jencks (2004), and the National Centre for Citizenship and the Law at the Galleries of Justice, Nottingham (2003).
For more information please visit: www.artfundprize.org.uk

Ends

Wedgwood Museum Art Prize - Please Vote

2009-06-10T13:10:00.003Z

Dear All,

As you may know the Wedgwood Museum is in the final four for the
Museum of the Year Award. If you have not already voted please do so
now as votes must be in by midnight (GMT) on Thursday 11th June.

To vote follow this link:
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/poll/2009/may/05/art-fund-britains-best-museums

It only takes a minute to vote and if people wish they can also leave
comments as to why the Wedgwood Museum should win.

Many thanks,

John

Emma Wedgwood and Charles Darwin Play

2009-06-01T12:10:00.004Z

Sent to me by Mrs Alison Wedgwood:

"Calling all descendants of Darwin and Wedgwood and friends of Staffordshire Dr Alan Wedgwood (head of the ["Etruria"] branch of the Wedgwood family) has sponsored this play for one showing only at the Wedgwood Museum on 14th June, all about Emma Wedgwood and Charles Darwin and based exactly on their letters. He's saw it a few months ago and thought it was brilliant."

“BETTER THAN A DOG” : The relationship of CHARLES and EMMA DARWIN (both grand-children of Josiah Wedgwood) dramatically revealed through their letters and journals.
Triumph and tragedy, humour and heartache all play their part in this extraordinary love story, which reveals the very private life of the very famous scientist and his sociable, devout wife

Reviews:

“Thrilled the audience ….. incredibly moving” Shropshire Star

“a totally different view of Darwin as loving father and adoring husband, with a great sense of humour” – Shrewsbury Chronicle.

Date & Time

June 14th at 4 pm

Tickets £20 including free entrance to the Wedgwood museum and refreshments.

“The Wedgwoods and the Doctors”

2009-05-25T20:14:00.001Z

I came across this article today: Lionel Burman, 'The Wedgwoods and the Doctors', Medical Historian [The Bulletin of the Liverpool Medical History Society], No. 13, 2002-2003. The article can be accessed here: http://www.lmi.org.uk/medical_society/13/13Burman.pdf

"If it's not 'Made in England', it's not Wedgwood"

2009-05-24T19:36:00.005Z

Following this post quoting the Sentinel article by Thomas D. and Thomas R. Wedgwood I would like to urge all readers of this blog to show your support for their stand. Insist on English Wedgwood and make your feelings known.

Write to:

Customer Service,

WWRD Ltd,

Barlaston,

Stoke-upon-Trent,

ST12 9ES

info@wedgwood.com

Know your Back-Stamps:

Products Made in Staffordshire England" will be marked "Made in England."

Products outsourced and produced Indonesia will just have "Wedgwood England" with no explicit country of origin.

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Family Commemorations

2009-05-23T06:13:00.003Z

Despite the sad loss of the last vestige of family influence at the iconic Wedgwood Pottery earlier this year – covered in this blog passim – 2009 is very much "The Year of Wedgwood". Members of the wider Wedgwood clan will be interested to note that both the Royal Mail and Royal Mint have, in their own way, issued products which commemorate the achievements of two family members.

In January the Royal Mail issued a set of stamps, for general release and in collector's packs, in honour of Charles Darwin born two hundred years ago in 1809. This year also marks the 150^th anniversary of the publication of his ground-breaking and controversial book On the Origin of Species (1859).

A few months later the Royal Mail issued a set of stamps dedicated to titans of the Industrial Revolution – our very own Josiah Wedgwood featured on the 50p stamp. I was pleased to be able to use this stamp to send out the 'thank you' for gifts given to our son Thomas for his Christening. This is surely the only time when consecutive special edition stamps have features a grandson and grandfather? Further, it must be noted that the Royal Mint has issued three different commemorative £2 coins: 1) "Brilliant Uncirculated coin", 2) "silver proof" and 3) "gold proof" for Charles Darwin which must be a similarly rare confluence of events. Don't forget that dear old Charles is also on the reverse of the Bank of England ten pound note so appearing on two currency formats at once must also be quite rare for a non-royal?

Ruth Padel

2009-05-17T19:04:00.005Z

Ruth Padel, poet and travel writer, and a double descendant of Josiah Wedgwood I, Chair of the UK Poetry Society 2004-2007 and currently Resident Poet at Christ's College Cambridge has been elected to the Post of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. Ruth is the first women to hold the 300-year-old poetry post. The appointment is for a term of five years, and chosen through an election open to all "members of Convocation." Her most recent book is Darwin: a life in poems [2009] a publication which marks the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, her great-great grandfather.

Simplified descent:

Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) + Sarah Wedgwood (3^rd cousin) =

Susannah Wedgwood + Robert Darwin =

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) + Emma Wedgwood (1^st cousin) =

Sir Horace Darwin (1851-1928) + Hon. Emma Cecilia "Ida" Farrer (1854–1946) =

Emma Nora Darwin (1885-1989) + Sir James Alan Noel Barlow

Hilda Horatia Barlow (b.1919) + John Hunter Padel =

Ruth Sophia Padel (b.1946)

Links:

Ruth Padel – Personal website.

Update:

[26^th May] Ruth Padel has resigned the post to allow a re-election free of controversy. BBC: "Oxford Poet 'Sorry' over Vote Row."

"Indonesian production has no Wedgwood family support"

2009-05-15T21:36:00.006Z

The Sentinel: Friday, May 15, 2009, 09:20

As workers at two of the world's most famous china brands come to terms with 225 more potential redundancies, members of the Wedgwood family are angry at plans to transfer more production to Indonesia. Here, cousins Tom R Wedgwood and Tom D Wedgwood argue that the policy of Wedgwood's and Royal Doulton's new U.S.-based owners is shortsighted and damaging.We are profoundly dismayed and angry at the announcement yesterday that there could be up to a further 225 manufacturing job losses at Barlaston. This is likely to be followed up by administration job losses as well.

Pierre de Villeméjane, chief executive officer of new owners WWRD may have used a velvet tongue to talk about "significant production remaining at Barlaston" but his iron fist is crippling production and in the long term threatens to destroy Wedgwood.

Let's get this absolutely clear. We, the direct descendants of Josiah Wedgwood, do not support the production of Wedgwood in Indonesia. It is not staying true to Josiah, his legacy or the excellence of ceramics craftsmanship in Stoke-on-Trent. Or let's put it another way – if it's not made in England it's not Wedgwood.

There will now only be around 150 employed in manufacturing Wedgwood in Staffordshire, compared to more than 1,500 in Indonesia. This is purely token manufacturing. Pierre and Michael Psaros, the boss at WWRD's parent company KPS, surely do not think that producing a few tableware lines and a few Prestige pieces in Stoke will be enough to fool astute global consumers? These redundancies will involve the loss of jobs in the Prestige special skills departments as well as the long-serving potters whose skills can never be truly replaced. It is a tragedy for the Potteries and for Josiah Wedgwood's legacy.

When we carried out due diligence as part of our bid to buy the company out of administration, the financial analysis proved that in the medium and long term it makes financial sense to develop the brand as a uniquely Staffordshire luxury product. It makes commercial and financial sense because consumers expect that when they pay £25 or more for a plate that it is designed, manufactured and decorated in Stoke. That is the only way consumers can guarantee they are buying the "unrivalled heritage" that Pierre hopes to cash in on. Why else would consumers make that purchasing decision when they know they can pick up 20 plates for a fiver made in China? We had hoped KPS had realised this. We'd heard rumours that all the media attention might have had an impact on their plans.

KPS are making a major commercial mistake. Wedgwood sales have gone through the floor. Yes, there is a world-wide recession, but there is a deeper underlying reason which Pierre ignores at his peril – suddenly, thanks to the media interest, high-end consumers in these markets have suddenly woken up to the fact that Wedgwood has a factory in Indonesia producing most of its core tableware and hollow-ware. Before January, most global consumers didn't know this. They honestly thought all Wedgwood was made in Stoke, and they've shown their disapproval by walking out of stores saying: "We don't want it." The cat is now out of the bag. Our greatest fear is that Pierre and Michael actually know this but don't care. They simply want to produce tableware in Indonesia and back-stamp it with Wedgwood or Vera Wang and "grow the hell", as they put it, out of the U.S. bridal market while playing lip-service to heritage to sell the odd Prestige piece. Their fundamental belief is that luxury consumers don't care. They're wrong.

Tell the world the truth: how much production will there be in Barlaston compared to Indonesia? Will WWRD still pretend it's made in Staffordshire? Why?

Wedgwood's 250th Anniversary 1759-2009

2009-05-01T15:02:00.004Z

A bitter sweet day for the Wedgwood clan today (May 1st) as Wedgwood's 250th Anniversary is formally celebrated. 250 years ago today a young Josiah Wedgwood set up business for himself at the Ivy House Works, property rented from his cousins John and Thomas Wedgwood of the Big House, Burslem.

Despite the efforts of members of the family to buy the company when it went into administration in January, it was bought by Private Equity outfit KPS. Their new vision is for just the Visitor Centre and a small manufactory presence producing “Prestige Items”. Royal Worcester did the same – to no great effect.

According to the BBC, Lord Wedgwood, now apparently taking the KPS shilling, officially launched the festivities. The Award winning Wedgwood Museum, independent of the company and deserving of our continued support has set admission at a special anniversary entry price of £2.50 per person, instead of the usual £9.50, from today until Monday.

Genealogy Discussion List: Roll Call 2009

2009-04-26T20:23:00.003Z

The Wedgwood Family Genealogy Discussion Forum has been quite active over the last few months. I asked members who could spare a moment to re-post their research interests to the list and have reproduced links to responses received so far - now accessible to all in the list archives:

John Wedgwood Pound (Me) - United Kingdom

John Wedgwood Cotton - USA

Margaret Surles - USA

Philip Richards - United Kingdom

David Wedgwood Brown - United Kingdom

David Wedgwood - Australia

Mary Temple - Australia

Allison Hutton – Australia

Andrew Lovatt – United Kingdom

If you would like to join this discussion forum – click here.

Wendy Jean Pound (1945-1993)

2009-04-26T20:03:00.002Z

It was my aunt, Wendy Pound, who first got me interested in Family History. Tragically we lost Wendy to cancer in 1993. My late grandmother raised a lot for Breakthrough Breast Cancer in her memory, and I would like to raise some more. If any one who has found these pages useful over the years would like to make a donation, you can be sure it will be put to good use by this most worthwhile charity.

Donate online through my Justgiving Page: http://www.justgiving.com/wendyjeanpound

If you are a UK Taxpayer, don't forget to Gift Aid it.

Thank you.

Wedgwoods of Worcestershire

2009-04-14T11:57:00.005Z

Submitted to the Wedgwood Mailing list:

Dear Louise,

Thanks for getting in touch - I am copying this to the Wedgwood
Mailing List (if you want to join go to: http://www.wedgwood.og.uk/). I
was intrigued by your query, not least because I live in
Worcestershire and know many of the places noted in this family
pedigree.

According to Wedgwood Pedigrees your branch is one the "strays" - a
branch with a conjectural unproven link with the main Staffordshire
"Trunk" of the tree. Wedgwood Pedigrees includes it in the
"Migration via Warwickshire"chapter - there are some high profile
fifteenth century migrants from Staffordshire to Warwickshire on to
whom many a stray branch as hitherto been pinned. Independent
migration from Staffordshire to the neighbouring (and very fine!)
county of Worcestershire is perhaps just as likely.

Philip Richards' work on updating and correcting earlier published
works has the Worcestershire Pedigree starting in the seventeenth
century. Perhaps one day it will be possible to pin down where this
branch links into the Staffordshire line, in the meantime a "Family
Report" produced using Philip's GEDCOM file can be accessed here:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ds6rqsm_12hhp67bgk

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"Wedgwood legacy is under threat"

2009-04-01T10:22:00.003Z

Letter to the Financial Times Published online : April 1 2009 03:00 Last updated: April 1 2009 03:00

From Mr Josiah Francis Wedgwood.

Sir, KPS Capital Partners' plan to transfer the production of Wedgwood
china to factories in Indonesia threatens to destroy the tradition and
branding of a 250-year-old company, as well as an English Midlands
community ("Waterford's new owner to accelerate shift overseas", March
27). Even as an economic matter, it will work only if the craft skills
are available abroad among poorly paid workers, and if American
consumers are willing to accept deluxe English china that is marked
"Made in Indonesia".

The use of a "Wedgwood – England" trademark may disguise the new
source of production for sales in the UK and Europe. But for sales in
the US, source of origin is more stringently regulated, and each plate
will have to admit on its verso that it was "Made in Indonesia". The
first Josiah never travelled to Asia, and neither will his company's
tradition.

Josiah Francis Wedgwood,
Potomac, MD, US

FT Link: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/da44c4d4-1e53-11de-830b-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

WEDGWOOD FAMILY PRESS RELEASE: - Wedgwood Family reject CEO claim

2009-03-30T12:27:00.002Z

Issued by Alison Wedgwood

The Head of the Wedgwood Family has expressed his anger at the
comments made by the new CEO of Waterford Wedgwood Pierre de
Villeméjane who was reported in national newspapers as saying " that
the deal even had the blessing of the Wedgwood family, who had told
him that they were thankful that the brand would continue. "

The new CEO of Wedgwood has not spoken to Tom R (former Director of
Asia Pacific), Tom D Wedgwood, Sir Martin Wedgwood or Alison Wedgwood
who have been instrumental in fighting to keep the Brand's key
manufacturing base in the UK. He also has not spoken to Dr Alan
Wedgwood, a former non-executive Director of Waterford Wedgwood and
the Head of the Wedgwood Family, or his wife Janet Wedgwood.

Tom D Wedgwood said today: 'The Wedgwood family would like to make it
very clear that it does not support any plan that moves manufacturing
of Wedgwood from Barlaston to Indonesia. We are particularly hurt by
KPS's claim that their bid has "our blessing". This is fundamentally
untrue and is directly against everything we have been fighting for in
the last three months.'

Dr Alan Wedgwood said: 'The Wedgwood family would be happy to offer
support only if they could be assured that production and jobs are
secured in Barlaston and the brand remains true to the spirit and core
values of Josiah Wedgwood.'

Wedgwood Company Future

2009-03-29T20:34:00.003Z

KPS Capital have succeeded in buying Wedgwood, all links with the
founding family have now been completely severed. Alison Wedgwood,
wife of Thomas D. Wedgwood who, with his cousin Thomas R. Wedgwood led
the Family Consortium which attempted to "Save Wedgwood", has asked me
to forward this message to you all with their THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

"Our Fight, Hopes and Fears for Wedgwood"
A Personal View by Alison Wedgwood – March 27th 2009

I just wanted to share with readers and the numerous employees and
ex-employees that have been in contact me my thoughts on what has
happened with regard to the Wedgwood family bidding for Waterford
Wedgwood. We made a non-binding indicative bid on 13th February. This
was co-ordinated by Wedgwood Partners Ltd, a consortium comprising the
Wedgwood family and a number of talented ex-employees, supporters and
professionals plus one regulated firm of professional advisors and one
FSA regulated fund management and corporate finance firm.

Due diligence had been taking place since the end of January, and was
ramped up in February when over a dozen legal, financial and corporate
specialists were in process of analysing all aspects of the potential
purchase. Rob Flello, MP and the union Unite have been very helpful
throughout this process. The investors were gathered, but there were
barriers to finding all the information because certain aspects of
Waterford Wedgwood were NOT in administration and so data about these
firms, their role and their contracts with the rest of the group was
not available.

We spoke to staff in Peter Mandelson's Ministry, the Department for
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform but they were unable to
assist in accessing this information because most of it was offshore.
The investors therefore could not proceed and make a binding offer on
large portions of the business they had not analysed and we could not
produce contracts and discuss heads of terms with the investors. I
cannot discuss any details of the contents of the bid because
non-disclosure agreements between Deloittes and bidders ensure that
everything that happens with regard to bidding stays out of the public
domain.

KPS announced they had come to a deal with Deloittes on Friday 27th
February due to "completion of overseas transactions". This has now
taken place and just as we feared it looks like KPS will move most of
the production, except prestige, to Indonesia.

Tom and Tom, the professional advisers, ex-employees, legal experts
and financiers worked weekends and through nights to try and secure a
deal that would ensure Wedgwood stayed in Stoke, producing outstanding
pottery for export around the world. We still believe passionately in
this goal and like the rest of Stoke, wait and see what an American
private equity firm working with many of the original senior managers
and Board of Waterford Wedgwood that brought Wedgwood to it's knees
can possibly do now.

For the real people in Stoke, the suppliers and sub-contractors owed
money, and the workers who signed legal contracts for enhanced
redundancy packages with the management in November last year, I feel
angry. They will be at the back of the queue when it comes to dishing
out any cash from the sale. I can only hope that we don't have even
more redundancies and, God forbid, if there are please can they be
done with dignity, not just a line of people left standing in the rain
waiting to be lead to the chamber/room.

It would seem that, just as in banking, reward for failure, a culture
of entitlement and managers who never accept responsibility is the way
of business and proves again the distorted global capitalist model
that has grown like an out of control monster these last 10 years. The
tragedy is that it's the workers who've put in 30 years of hard work,
growing a business, actually making real things out of the minerals
and clays of the area that really suffer.

The KPS business model will see many businessmen nodding their heads
in agreement: cut costs, streamlining, labour that is 85% cheaper in
Indonesia. Ironic when you consider that Deloittes admin staff are
charged out at £220 an hour and partners at £745 an hour and they've
earned over £3 million in fees over 3 months.

But will the KPS model work? I know that consumers in Japan are
dismayed to find out that the Indonesian factory even exists; I know
of an American who smashed his purchased item in the showroom when he
found out it was made in Indonesia. I know the owner of the only
Indonesian showroom didn't want to stock Wedgwood sourced from the
factory just down the road from her. I know that Steelite and Dudson
produce outstanding ware in Stoke competing head on with low cost
producers overseas and winning outright. I know that the real pottery
craftsmen and women and their commitment is only found in Stoke. The
clay and bone ash is sourced around Stoke, and it has to be
transported to Indonesia. The skilled craftsmen are not expensive; the
pound is low. Anyway, the labour costs have not been part of the
problem, the supply chain and distribution networks organised by the
senior management are more to blame. Tom D spent a month on the
production line in 2005 and knows full well where the wastage and
inefficiencies are.

I'm sure KPS know all this as well, and they are hoping that less
discerning buyers won't care about country of origin, won't care about
the 250 years of heritage, excellence, design and Josiah's legacy as a
marketing pioneer. They're not proud of the Wedgwood history in
Staffordshire how it is intertwined with the Darwin's, the industrial
revolution, the Lunar Society, the strong Wedgwood women who were
instrumental in the abolitionist fight and the daughter of Josiah who
gave birth to one of the world's greatest scientists Charles Darwin.
But they should care, because they may find out that the Wedgwood
Collectors Societies and all the discerning consumers who aspire to
purchase exquisite china that represents 250 year of this heritage -
they really do care. Then what happens to global sales?"

-------- End-----

REMEMBER to continue to support the Wedgwood Museum, managed by an
independent trust. They have just re-opened a state-of-the art museum
at Barlaston. It contains one of the finest collections of Wedgwood in
the world, new research facilities and 85,000 archival items -the
Wedgwood Manuscript collection dating from the sixteenth century.

http://www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk/

Wedg(e)wood Genealogy Mailing List

2009-03-28T18:25:00.003Z

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The End of a 350 year Family Tradition

2009-03-27T23:23:00.005Z

Despite the efforts of Thomas D. and Thomas R. Wedgwood to save Wedgwood as a Staffordshire based Pottery, Private Equity concern KPS Capital have succeeded in purchasing certain principal Waterford Wedgwood assets from the bankrupt group. The Wedgwood cousins had pledged to save local jobs – now many Wedgwood employees face a very uncertain futuire. The whole region's future is bleak – most ceramic production has now moved overseas. Only a handful of Staffordshire firms remain.

This marks a sad end to a venerable family tradition. Josiah Wedgwood & Sons was founded in 1759, however the potting tradition stretches back to Josiah Wedgwood's great-great-grandfather, Gilbert Wedgwood (1588-1678) who moved from Biddulph to Burslem upon his marriage to heiress Margaret Burslem, and took up the trade. Since that time, from father-to-son, in an unbroken line – until the resignations of Dr Alan Wedgwood and Thomas R Wedgwood from the firm; "No other family business is recorded as surviving in unbroken succession for so long"

Now, according to reports: "KPS will expand Waterford Wedgwood into emerging markets, transfer production overseas and cut costs" – oh dear, what would Josiah have said? I suspect his would have exclaimed his oft spoken retort "This will not do for Josiah Wedgwood". Your family agreed and they tried, there is no dishonour in that.

Charles Wedgwood (b.1872) Yorkshire

2009-03-25T22:20:00.004Z

Hello there, thanks for getting in touch.

I think I have found him - Charles is from the Yorkshire branch.
Philip Richards, a member of this forum has done a huge amount of work
correcting errors in "The Wedgwood Pedigrees", details of Charles'
descent can be found here:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ds6rqsm_11gd5gm2dw This material is from
Philip Richards' database.

I hope this is of interest to you - do get in touch if you have any
further questions or would like to update us of what your branch of
the family has been doing since the 1920s!

Kind regards,

John

2009/3/25 Merv & Helene Wedgwood <woodie@onlink.net>:
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Wedgwood 250

2009-03-23T21:52:00.002Z

I know that members of the Wedgwood family associated with the recent bid for the old family firm have plans for a commemoration of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons' 250th Anniversary. In America advance plans are already in pace, Lord Wedgwood - a US resident and Brand Ambassador - is associated with the Commemorative Exhibition planned for Washington D.C. in the Autumn (or should I say "Fall"). The following information is from: http://www.wedgwood250usa.org/

The year 2009 marks the 250^th anniversary of Josiah Wedgwood’s company founding in 1759. The Wedgwood-250 Exhibition USA Committee is pleased to announce its commemoration plans for a major exhibit and ceremony to take place in the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. The Wedgwood collecting community and the Wedgwood company are collaborating with the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Museum and Society in staging “Wedgwood: 250 Years of Innovation and Artistry”.

This exhibition will run from 3 October 2009 through 27 February 2010 at the DAR Museum and will showcase a broad range of select items illustrating the company's unique history and manufacturing. All eras from 1759 to 2009, the wide variety of clay bodies and designs, and the numerous categories of items produced will be represented, with the objects being drawn from North American private, museum, and celebrity collections. The program will also offer a monthly lecture series, presented by noted Wedgwood authorities, over the period of the exhibition. And there will be special prestige ware and commemorative objects for sale.

In addition, a full-color catalogue, featuring all the objects in the exhibit, a Wedgwood historical introduction written by a famed author, underwriter advertisements, sponsor, benefactor and lender listings, and more, will be produced. This catalogue will be funded by sponsors and benefactors who will be duly recognized in both the catalogue and onsite acknowledgement board during this five-month exhibition. Donations starting at $100 are being accepted now. Those making a contribution of $1000 or higher will be invited to join lenders, celebrities, and dignitaries at the opening ceremony – an afternoon tea and private viewing – on October 2, 2009 at the DAR Memorial Continental Hall and Museum. The planned highlight will be the British Ambassador presenting a specially commissioned Wedgwood gift to the White House.

For more information on the event and how you may become a benefactor, call 703.437.7997 or email WSofWDC@aol.com. We welcome your participation in this once-in-a-lifetime milestone event.

Family Records Centre

2009-03-20T21:39:00.002Z

The UK Government's Genealogy Portal - http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/default.asp, which I have only just come across, features our very own Charles Darwin in this anniversary year. The Darwin microsite contains a PDF Family Tree showing the complex Wedgwood-Darwin inter-relationship, information on his Darwin ancestors.

There do, at present seem to be some technical difficulties with the page – some links point, inexplicably, to Lewis Carroll related information. I will alert them!

Swiss Family Wedgwood

2009-03-20T21:18:00.003Z

Robert Wedgwood, like me, is descended from Thomas Wedgwood IV (1716-1773). He lives with his family in Switzerland and maintains his own Family Homepage .

Sampson Erdeswicke

2009-03-14T22:29:00.002Z

The noted sixteenth century Staffordshire Antiquary Sampson Erdeswicke (d. 1603) is related to the Wedgwoods of Harracles, Biddulph and Burslem, theses branches share Erdeswicke descent through the Bowyer Family. The Pedigree of the Bowyer family in A History of the Wedgwood Family [1908] omits the generation with the Erdeswicke marriage this is however accepted and restored in the Bowyer Pedigree's for Lord Denham presented in subsequent editions of Burkes Peerage and Baronetage.

Erdeswicke's most famous work, his Survey of Staffordshire, [E-Edition, Google Books] makes reference to members of the Wedgwood family known to him at the time.

Biographical note in Wikipedia.
Bibliography
His tomb in Sandon Church

Wedgwood Books

2009-03-14T22:11:00.002Z

I am a hopeless bibliophile, my wife despairs at my clutter of books.

I am going to start a series of Blog Posts on family related books, both by members of the extended family, and books on our shared family history of biographies of individuals. There are many biographies on Josiah Wedgwood of course, and also on Charles Darwin, especially in this anniversary year. There family has also produced many authors, the celebrated historian Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood OM, the noted American Constitutional Scholar Dr William Wedgwood and more recently the poetess Ruth Padel and Emma Darwin.

I have also set up an Amazon Associates Store to showcase these and other books.

Josiah Wedgwood, FRS (1730-1795)

2009-03-12T22:59:00.002Z

Free access biography from Dictionary of National Biography

Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795), master potter, was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, probably on 12 July 1730, the date on which his baptism was registered at St John's Church in that parish. He was the thirteenth and youngest child of Thomas Wedgwood (1687–1739) and his wife, Mary,née Stringer (d. 1766), of Churchyard Pottery. The Wedgwood family had a long connection with Staffordshire pottery, starting with Josiah's great-great-grandfather, Gilbert Wedgwood, who is recorded as working a small pottery in Burslem towards the end of the seventeenth century. No trace has been found of any wares made by Thomas Wedgwood and it is probable that, like other potters, he supplemented his small income from it by farming a smallholding on the same land.

Early years

Scarcely anything is known of Josiah's childhood. He was brought up in the thatched Churchyard house and pottery, which Thomas Wedgwood had inherited from his father, and began his education at about the age of six, walking the 7 miles round trip to attend a small school in Newcastle under Lyme. His mother was the daughter of the Unitarian minister at Newcastle under Lyme, and she brought up her children in the same faith. Josiah's father died in 1739, bequeathing the small family business to his eldest son, Thomas, and on 11 November 1744 Josiah was apprenticed for five years to his brother at the Churchyard works to learn the 'Art of Throwing and Handleing' (Reilly, Wedgwood, 1.26–7). The terms of the contract are significant because the difficult art of throwing was the most highly rated of all the potter's skills and only those expected to become master potters served such an apprenticeship.

At an early stage of his indenture, probably about 1745 or 1746, Josiah suffered a severe attack of smallpox which left his right knee permanently weakened, and he was unable without assistance to work the 'kick-wheel' that provided the motive power of the thrower's wheel.

Wedgwood's business partners and marriage

Josiah nevertheless acquired considerable skill as a thrower and completed his apprenticeship. He continued to work for his brother until 1752, when he formed a partnership with John Harrison and Thomas Alders of Cliff Bank, Stoke-on-Trent. Two years later he was taken into partnership by Thomas Whieldon, one of the most respected potters in England, at his factory at Fenton Vivian, near Stoke. According to his experiment book, Wedgwood's work with Whieldon was largely concerned with the improvement of ceramic bodies, glazes, colours, and shapes, and it is clear that his efforts were directed principally towards the development of lead-glazed, cream-coloured earthenware ('creamware') and the creation and improvement of coloured glazes. He wrote later of this period: 'I saw the field was spacious, and the soil so good, as to promise an ample recompence to any one who should labour diligently in its cultivation' (Wedgwood MS 29–19121).

In 1759 Wedgwood left Whieldon to become an independent potter, renting the Ivy House works for £15 a year and hiring his cousin, Thomas Wedgwood, as journeyman. By 1765 Thomas was Josiah's principal assistant and a year later he was taken into partnership with a one-eighth share of the profits. This partnership, which was limited to the production of 'useful' wares (generally, tablewares), lasted until 1788.

Little evidence exists of the wares produced at the Ivy House works, but they almost certainly included typical Staffordshire pottery of the period for which there was an established market: salt-glazed stoneware, redware, and earthenware decorated with glazes in imitation of agate, marbling, and tortoiseshell. To these Wedgwood would have been anxious to add ware decorated with his fine green and yellow glazes, perfected in March 1759 and 1760, and his first cauliflower and pineapple shapes probably date from this period. His most important development, however, was the further improvement of his creamware body and in September 1761 a small quantity of this was bought from him by John Sadler of Liverpool, probably for experiments in transfer-printed decoration. The first delivery of Sadler's printed decoration on Wedgwood's creamware was made in March 1762. From 1762 Sadler and his partner Guy Green decorated increasingly large quantities of Wedgwood's creamware, which was sent to Liverpool for the purpose, and this valuable business, which grew rapidly in worth from £30 a month in 1763 to £650 a month in 1771, continued at least until 1795.

Wedgwood's success with these early wares enabled him, by the beginning of 1763, to move to the larger Brick House ('Bell') works. The change coincided with his decision to commission supplies of salt-glazed wares (which he ceased to produce in his own factory), moulded shapes, and large quantities of biscuit (unglazed) wares from William Greatbatch, a former employee of Whieldon's, who had set up his own pottery.

In the spring of 1762, while on a visit to Liverpool, Wedgwood fell and damaged his vulnerable right knee. Confined to his bed he was attended by Dr Matthew Turner, who introduced his patient to Thomas Bentley, a cultivated man, already experienced in commerce, who had acquired both classical learning and a knowledge of French and Italian. The two men found that their personalities were both compatible and complementary, and they began a friendship which was the foundation of one of the foremost manufacturing partnerships in industrial history. In Wedgwood's letters to Bentley, more than 1000 of which have been preserved, there has survived a remarkably full and lively account of their intimate association, which was to last for more than eighteen years. Bentley's replies, all but a few of them now lost, were described by Wedgwood as 'my Magazines, Reviews, Chronicles, & I had allmost said my Bible' (Wedgwood MS 25–18256, September 1769).

From the start Wedgwood demonstrated an initiative unique among potters of his time, and he was usually the first to adopt or adapt innovative aids and techniques. An important example was the engine-turning lathe, primarily a metalworking tool, the use of which he introduced to pottery in 1763.

On 25 January 1764 Wedgwood married Sarah (1734–1815), the daughter of his kinsman Richard Wedgwood, a prosperous merchant and the eldest brother of Thomas and John Wedgwood of the Big House, Burslem, from whom Josiah had rented the Ivy House works five years earlier. Sarah was a substantial heiress and brought with her a considerable dowry, said to have been £4000, which came under Wedgwood's control. It was a love match, successfully negotiated in spite of initial opposition from her father, and there is ample evidence that the marriage was a happy one. Sarah was intelligent, shrewd, and well educated—better, in fact, than her husband—and they shared a broad sense of humour and a strong sense of family duty. In the first years of their marriage, she helped Josiah with his work, learning the codes and formulae in which he recorded his experiments, keeping accounts, and giving practical advice on shapes and decoration.

In 1765 Wedgwood opened his first London showrooms in Charles Street, off Grosvenor Square, and in June he received a commission to make an elaborate tea service in green and gold creamware for Queen Charlotte. In the following year he was officially appointed potter to her majesty and his creamware was renamed 'Queen's ware'.

The Etruria factory

In 1766 Wedgwood bought for £3000 the Ridgehouse estate of some 350 acres, situated between Burslem, Hanley, and Newcastle under Lyme, and built there a factory which he named Etruria. A crucial advantage of the location of the factory was its position in the path of the projected Trent and Mersey Canal, in the promotion of which Wedgwood played an active part. He was also a leader in the fight for turnpike roads to improve communications between the Staffordshire potteries, London, and Liverpool.

Bentley, meanwhile, had formed a partnership in Liverpool with Samuel Boardman and, starting in 1764, had built up a solid and expanding trade in Wedgwood wares, much of which he shipped to America and the West Indies. In February 1767, after fourteen months of persuasion and discussion, Bentley agreed to become Wedgwood's partner in the manufacture of ornamental wares, for which the Etruria factory was to be designed. This project was threatened when, in April 1768, Wedgwood 'over walk'd & over work'd' his right knee (Wedgwood MS 17760, 30 April 1768); four weeks later, his leg was amputated, without anaesthetic, in his own house, by a local surgeon. By the third week of June, Wedgwood was sufficiently recovered to visit his Burslem factory and the Etruria site, and shortly afterwards he was fitted with the first of the wooden legs which he wore for the rest of his life.

The Wedgwood and Bentley partnership books were opened in November 1768, and the Etruria factory was officially inaugurated on 13 June 1769, a date commemorated by the production of six 'First Day's Vases' thrown by Wedgwood on a wheel turned by Bentley. Products of the new partnership included cameos, medallions, tablets for chimney pieces, and library busts in Wedgwood's refined black stoneware which he called black basaltes. Far more important were the ornamental vases, an innovation in English pottery, formerly thought fine enough only for tableware. By the end of 1768 Wedgwood had three types of vases in production: creamware, often enriched with gilding; 'variegated', in imitation of natural stones such as agate, marble, porphyry, and lapis lazuli; and black basaltes, ornamented in bas-relief or, from 1769, painted in imitation of Greek and Roman red-figure vases. He told Bentley that it was his modest intention to become 'Vase Maker General to the Universe' (Wedgwood MS 25–18240, 1 May 1769). By August 1772 he already had 'upwards of 100 Good Forms of Vases' (Wedgwood MS 25–18392, 23 Aug 1772), most of them copied or adapted from shapes illustrated in books of engravings but disguised by altered ornament or added decoration.

The display of Wedgwood's vases in the Wedgwood and Bentley London showrooms, which moved in 1768 to larger premises in Great Newport Street, created a new fashion—a 'violent Vase Madness' (Wedgwood MS 25–18314, 2 Aug 1770), which, by its sudden success, revealed serious flaws in the management of the partnership. Wedgwood was heavily in debt. Although profits for both partnerships were satisfactory, failure to regulate production had led to a vast accumulation of stock and a serious lack of ready cash, classic symptoms of uncontrolled expansion with insufficient capital resources. The pricing of ornamental wares was haphazard, production runs were often too short to be economical, and the lack of a costing system had allowed the wasteful use of labour and materials to go unnoticed. Wedgwood responded to the threat to the business by planning production and creating a 'price book of workmanship', one of the first essays in cost accounting in the history of manufacturing (Reilly, Josiah Wedgwood, 112–14).

It was not only the products of the Etruria factory that were innovative: the layout of the factory and the management techniques employed there were exceptionally advanced, and the finished estate included an elegant house, Etruria Hall, for the Wedgwood family, and housing for many of the workers. Wedgwood insisted on strict factory discipline but he subsidized an early form of sick-benefit scheme, and conditions for work at Etruria compared favourably with those to be found anywhere in Europe. Originally intended for the production of ornamental wares only, the plan of the factory was extended in 1767 to embrace the Queen's ware 'useful' wares, the production of which was moved from the Brick House works in 1772.

The Queen's ware revolution

Queen Charlotte's patronage of Wedgwood's creamware was followed by orders for tableware from the king and many of the nobility. In 1770 Wedgwood received his first order from Empress Catherine II of Russia. Three years later she commissioned a large Queen's ware dinner and dessert service of nearly 1000 pieces for the Chesmensky Palace, familiarly known as La Grenouillière (the frog marsh). The 'Frog' service, then the largest ever ordered from a British potter, was decorated with hand-painted landscapes and a frog emblem at Wedgwood's Chelsea decorating studio, supervised by Bentley. Its completion in 1774 marked the removal of the firm's London showrooms from Great Newport Street to even larger premises in Greek Street, where the service was displayed, by invitation, to the public. This great service is now permanently exhibited at the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.

Wedgwood's Queen's ware, the most influential development in the history of British pottery, achieved almost a monopoly of the high-quality earthenware tableware market in Europe. It was widely imitated, notably in France (faience-fine, faience anglaise), Germany (Steingut), and Italy (terraglia), and by the end of the century the manufacture of the traditional European tin-glazed earthenware had virtually ceased.

Marketing

From 1772 it was Wedgwood's policy to mark everything made at Etruria. He was the first earthenware potter consistently to mark his goods and the first ever to use his own name, which was impressed in the clay. He and Bentley undertook market research, cultivating influential patrons (several of whom permitted him to copy objects in their private collections), enlisting the help of ambassadors, and taking pains to produce wares suited to specific markets. In 1771–2, in a daring and ultimately successful experiment in inertia selling, unsolicited parcels of ware were sent to many of the noble houses of Germany in the hope of attracting orders and advertising the quality of the goods. Between 1773 and 1787 Wedgwood issued illustrated catalogues of his Queen's ware and ornamental wares, the later editions being published in French, German, and Dutch translations.

Design played an important part in Wedgwood's success and he owed to Bentley his conversion to the neo-classical style, which he applied to his Queen's ware tablewares as he did to his ornamental wares at a time when all other pottery and porcelain manufacturers were dedicated to the rococo.

Porcelain and jasper

Wedgwood became a master potter at a time when it was the ambition of almost every potter in Europe to make porcelain. His commonplace book shows that he was well informed about porcelain manufacture, but he was also aware of the crippling losses associated with it and the failure of many of the English factories which had made it. In 1775 he led the potters when they successfully contested the renewal of Richard Champion's patent for the exclusive use of Cornish clay and china stone, but he failed in his attempt to establish a 'Public Experimental Work' in co-operation with other leading Staffordshire potters for the manufacture of 'an useful white porcelain body' (Reilly, Josiah Wedgwood, 311–12).

By that time Wedgwood was well advanced with his long and arduous series of more than 5000 recorded experiments which culminated in his invention of jasper, but it was not until November 1777 that he was able to assure Bentley that he could make it 'with as much facility & certainty' as the black basaltes (Wedgwood MS 25–18790, 3 Nov 1777). The most significant ceramic invention since that of porcelain by the Chinese nearly a thousand years earlier, jasper was an original white stoneware body which was capable of being stained by metallic oxides and ornamented in bas-relief to produce the two-colour appearance of cameos. It was perfectly suited to neo-classical decoration, and the colours that Wedgwood chose for his new medallions, plaques, and tablets for chimney pieces were intended to complement those most fashionable in interior decoration. It was no coincidence that they closely matched some of those used by Robert Adam. Wedgwood developed advanced ornamenting techniques to produce in jasper an enormous variety of ornamental wares from buttons to vases, and his cameos were mounted in metal as jewellery or as ornament for boxes, cabinets, and clocks.

The smaller designs for Wedgwood's bas-relief ornaments were cast or copied from antique gems, often borrowed from the collections of such patrons as the duke of Marlborough and Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. Portraits of 'Illustrious Moderns', of which Wedgwood produced more than 300 as jasper medallions, and larger reliefs, were modelled for him by professional sculptors and modellers, including the younger John Flaxman and Joachim Smith in London, or by William Hackwood, employed at Etruria for sixty-three years. After Bentley's death in 1780 Wedgwood extended his range of commissioned models, setting up a studio in Rome. There Italian sculptors, supervised by Flaxman and Henry Webber, were employed to adapt subjects from the antique, buying work from London modellers and using designs in the Romantic style from three gifted amateur artists, Lady Diana Beauclerk, Lady Templetown, and Emma Crewe.

From 1781 Wedgwood was able to make jasper vases, for several of which Flaxman also provided bas-relief ornaments, and it was Flaxman who in February 1785 drew Wedgwood's attention to the Portland vase. In 1786 Wedgwood obtained permission to copy it in jasper. Work on the vase continued for more than three years before he was able to send the first perfect copy to his friend, Dr Erasmus Darwin, who later included a description of it in The Botanic Garden (1791), with an illustration engraved by William Blake. Wedgwood's jasper Portland vase was exhibited in London in May 1790 and copies were sold by subscription. Fine 'first edition' vases rank among the greatest technical achievements of European pottery and they provided a triumphant finale to Wedgwood's career.

Arts and sciences

In 1782 Wedgwood had worked on a method for improving the accuracy of firing pottery. His new instrument for measuring heat in the kilns, a form of thermoscope, was called a 'pyrometer', and he read the first of four papers describing his invention to the Royal Society in May of that year. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1783. In March 1786 he was elected fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and in October of the same year fellow of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.

Wedgwood's interest in the arts was undoubtedly stimulated by his long friendship with Bentley and by his association with patrons whose collections he was invited to visit. In 1780 George Stubbs, at whose request Wedgwood had made some large earthenware tablets for the artist to paint on, was his guest at Etruria. Stubbs stayed for several months, making sketches for a large painting on panel of the Wedgwood family, painting portraits on Wedgwood's ceramic plaques of Josiah and Sarah and on panel of her father, Richard, and modelling two large bas-reliefs for reproduction in jasper and black basaltes. Portraits of both Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood were painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1784, and in 1785 Wedgwood bought three paintings from Joseph Wright of Derby. As the Reynolds portrait shows, Wedgwood's features were undistinguished and his dress unostentatious; but the jaw is firm and the grey-blue eyes show humour as well as resolution. The subject's high colour may be evidence of his fondness for red meat, porter, and fortified wines. Profile portraits of Wedgwood, modelled by Joachim Smith and William Hackwood, were reproduced in jasper.

Wedgwood's geological explorations in search of raw materials, and his chemical experiments in their use, often required the superior scientific knowledge and experience of his friends. After Bentley his closest friend was Dr Erasmus Darwin, Sarah Wedgwood's 'favourite Esculapius' (Wedgwood MS 25–18430, 26 Dec 1772), who attended the family whenever serious illness threatened and who inoculated the Wedgwood children against smallpox. Darwin was a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham. Wedgwood's membership is disputed but it is certain that he attended meetings of the society, where he met Joseph Priestley, James Watt, William Withering, and other members, as well as distinguished visiting speakers. From about 1779 Wedgwood freely supplied Priestley and other scientists with chemical wares for their experiments, and in 1791 he offered Priestley a home at Etruria after the Birmingham riots in which his house and laboratory were destroyed. Matthew Boulton, also a member of the society and famous for his manufacture of metalwork of the highest quality, was for many years a friendly rival whom Wedgwood described as 'very ingenious, philosophical & agreeable' (Wedgwood MS 25–18147, 23 May 1767).

Wedgwood's family

Of the seven children of Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood born between 1765 and 1778, two died young: their second son, Richard, who lived less than a year, and their youngest daughter, Mary Ann, who was retarded and suffered from fits and died at the age of eight. The eldest child, Susannah, Josiah's favourite, was to marry Erasmus Darwin's son, Robert; their fifth child was the naturalist Charles Darwin. The three surviving sons, John, Josiah, and Tom [see Wedgwood, Thomas], were educated privately before going on to Edinburgh University. All received training in the pottery business but in 1779 Wedgwood confided to Bentley that he expected his eldest son to be 'settled as a gentleman farmer' while Josiah (II) and Tom were to be 'potters & partners in trade' (Wedgwood MS 26–18946, 19 Dec 1779). Despite Bentley's warnings Wedgwood indulged his children and was especially patient with his sons. Although privately he hoped that all three might follow him in the firm, he told them that they should 'judge for themselves before they engaged in it' (Wedgwood MS W/M 32, 17 June 1793). Wedgwood's cousin Thomas, his partner in the manufacture of 'useful' wares, left the firm in 1788 and died shortly afterwards, leaving Wedgwood in sole control. Only Wedgwood's nephew, Tom Byerley, to whom he had entrusted the London showrooms after Bentley's death, combined sufficient experience in the business with a genuine desire to share the burden.

In 1790 Wedgwood nevertheless took his three sons and his nephew into partnership and began progressively to retire from active control; but his plan 'to ease myself of increasing care in the decline of life' (Wedgwood MS W/M 32, 17 June 1793) was frustrated by the resignation of both his eldest and his youngest sons from their partnerships in 1793. Tom, the cleverest of the brothers, was later to be known as one of the pioneers of photography.

Last years

Wedgwood's political sympathies were generally whig and towards the end of his life he found more time for activity in this area. He founded the General Chamber of Manufacturers of Great Britain, acting as spokesman for the pottery industry in opposition to Pitt's proposed commercial treaty with Ireland, and as adviser to William Eden in negotiations for the French commercial treaty of 1786. His enthusiasm for the French Revolution was less public and less sustained than his belief in the American cause in 1776; but he was unequivocal in his championship of the campaign for abolition of the slave trade, becoming a committee member of an anti-slavery society, distributing pamphlets, and issuing a jasper cameo depicting a kneeling slave in chains.

In November 1794 Wedgwood's health began to fail and he took several weeks away from the potteries, leaving the management of Etruria in the hands of his second son. Erasmus Darwin was consulted and Wedgwood appeared to recover, but a few weeks later his face swelled and he suffered acute pain in the jaw, attributed to a decayed tooth. The surgeon summoned to extract it discovered 'signs of mortification' and Darwin decided that nothing could be done. Wedgwood's condition deteriorated rapidly and he became unconscious. He died, probably from cancer of the jaw, on 3 January 1795, at Etruria Hall. He was buried on the 6th in the parish church of Stoke-on-Trent. Seven years later a marble memorial tablet commissioned by his sons was installed there. The portrait, carved in high relief by John Flaxman, was considered a good likeness and the inscription bore a suitable tribute, but the tablet is remarkable for the date, 'August 1730', given for Wedgwood's birth, suggesting that the present-day ignorance of his early life was shared by his family. Wedgwood's will was proved on 2 July 1795. He had made substantial gifts to his children during his lifetime but the total value of his estate nevertheless approached £500,000.

Wedgwood's legacy

Josiah Wedgwood belonged to the fourth generation of a family of potters whose traditional occupation continued through another five generations. No other family business is recorded as surviving in unbroken succession for so long. The reason for its survival is plain: the strength of its foundations. Wedgwood was the most innovative of English potters and, in his time, the most enlightened. As he told his young cousin, Ralph Wedgwood, 'Everything gives way to experiment' (Reilly, Josiah Wedgwood, 311). Gladstone paid tribute to him in 1863 as 'the greatest man who ever, in any age or country, applied himself to the important work of uniting art with industry' (Reilly, Wedgwood, 1.16). Wedgwood himself might have preferred the less fulsome appreciation inscribed on his monument: 'He converted a rude and inconsiderable Manufactory into an elegant Art and An important part of the National Commerce'.

Robin Reilly

Oxford DNB: Robin Reilly, 'Wedgwood, Josiah (1730–1795)',Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28966, accessed 12 March 2009]

Likenesses

J. Smith, Wedgwood medallion, c.1773, Man. City Gall. · W. Mackwood, Wedgwood medallion, 1779, NPG · G. Stubbs, ceramic colours on ceramic, 1780, Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston [see illus.] · G. Stubbs, group portrait, oils, 1780 (The Wedgwood family), Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston · W. Hackwood, ceramic relief medallion, 1782, Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston · J. Reynolds, oils, 1784, Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston · E. Davis, bronze statue, 1860, Stoke-on-Trent railway station; copy, Wedgwood factory, Barlaston · Chitqua, miniature · J. Flaxman, marble relief on memorial tablet, St Peter ad Vincula, Stoke-on-Trent; copy, Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston · attrib. J. Reynolds, oils, Down House, London · S. W. Reynolds, engraving (after J. Reynolds, 1784) · J. Smith, ceramic relief medallion, Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston · R. Unwin, miniature · J. T. Wedgwood, engraving (after J. Reynolds, 1784)

Wealth at death

approx. £500,000: will, Wedgwood, History of the Wedgwood family, [1908] 173–5