Josiah Wedgwood II (1769-1843), the son of the English potter Josiah Wedgwood, continued his father's firm and was Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent.

Jos and his brother Tom gave their friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge a life annuity of £150, with the goal of freeing Coleridge from financial worries and the need to support himself by noncreative work, so that he could pursue his literary and philosophic interests.

In 1807, Wedgwood bought Maer Hall in Staffordshire and his family lived there until his death in 1843.

Wedgwood was responsible for the Wedgwood Company’s first bone china wares.

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

• Josiah Wedgwood III (1795-1880; married his cousin Caroline Darwin.
• Charlotte Wedgwood (1797–1862; married Charles Langton (1801–1886) in 1832. After her death Charles Langton remarried her cousin Emily Catherine Darwin, daughter of Robert Darwin, sister of Charles Darwin.
• Henry Allen Wedgwood (1799–1885) married secondly his cousin Jessie Wedgwood, daughter of John Wedgwood (1766–1844).
• Francis "Frank" Wedgwood (1800–1880)
• Hensleigh Wedgwood (1803-1891)
• Emma Wedgwood (1808-1896; married her cousin Charles Darwin, son of Robert Darwin)

External links

• http://www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk/biogresults.asp?BiographySelection=35

1769 births | 1843 deaths | Darwin — Wedgwood family | British MPs