Josiah Wedgwood, II (1769–1843)

Master-potter. Emma Darwin’s father. Partner in the Wedgwood pottery works at Etruria, Staffordshire, 1795–1841. Resident at Maer Hall, Staffordshire. Whig MP for Stoke-on-Trent, 1832–4.

Sources

Burke’s peerage 1980

Emma Darwin (1915)

Freeman 1978