Thomas Wedgwood IV
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Thomas Wedgwood IV (1716, Burslem–23 February 1773, Burslem) was an English master potter who taught his illustrious youngest brother Josiah Wedgwood the trade.[1] Following the death of their father, potter Thomas Wedgwood III, Josiah was apprenticed to his eldest brother Thomas for five years, starting in 1744.[2]
He was the fourth-generation Thomas Wedgwood to live in the Churchyard House until 1756, when he took up residence at the Overhouse, which he inherited from his cousin Katherine Egerton.[3] Prior to that, he had already been leasing the Overhouse Potworks.[3] Although he was not as commercially successful as his brother Josiah, his pottery business achieved more material wealth than previous generations of Wedgwoods.[3]
Family
[edit]The eldest son of the potter Thomas Wedgwood III (1685–1739) and his wife Mary Stringer, Wedgwood was also the great-uncle of naturalist Charles Robert Darwin.[citation needed]
He married twice, first to Isabell Beech (1722–1750), who had five children, two of whom died in infancy. His surviving children with Isabell included Thomas Wedgwood V (c. 1745–1787),[3] master potter of the Overhouse, from whom descends the famous ceramic designer Clarice Cliff.[citation needed] After the death of his first wife, he married Jane Richards (1715–1785), with whom he had three children.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Kerr, Gordon (2009). Art deco. Bath: Pulteney. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-906734-63-3.
- ^ "Wedgwood, Josiah". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 31 October 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00203033.
- ^ a b c d e Wedgwood, Josiah Clement (1908). A History of the Wedgwood Family. pp. 109, 120, 136. Retrieved 22 July 2024 – via Internet Archive.