Josiah Wedgwood

(1730-1795)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795 NRA: Wedgwood Josiah (1730-1795) potter DNB: Wedgwood, Josiah (1730-1795), master potter LBT ID: JoWedge1795 VIAF ID: 17248967 LOC ID: n50022707	B/BAP: 1730-07-12 DIED: 1795-01-03
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Founder of the pottery works at Etruria (1766) in partnership with his cousin Thomas Wedgewood.
REFERENCES TO Josiah Wedgwood: William Godwin to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 10 June 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 7 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 8 January 1814 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 4 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Observations on Coleridge's Biographia Literaria” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 3-18 Found 1: ¶ 41 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Sketches of the Living Poets. No. 4—Mr. Coleridge” in The Examiner (21 October 1821) 664-67 Found 1: ¶ 1 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. III. 1788-1792 Found 1: ¶ 32 Ch. IX. 1797 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 74 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter II: 1814