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Joseph Wedgwood was, in his lifetime, the best-known pottery manufacturer in Europe. He made many notable contributions to the means of producing high-quality ceramic wares, and, in a broader sense, to the intellectual background to the Industrial Revolution in Britain.

He was born in Burslem, North Staffordshire, in a region where pottery manufacture was already well-established, although the units of production were small, and marketing was unsophisticated. His father, Thomas Wedgwod (1687-1739) was a potter, as was his brother, also Thomas, with whom he worked between 1744 and 1752. Subsequently he worked for Thomas Whielden, probably the most able potter of his generation, but left in 1759 to rent the Ivy House pottery, which he operated on his own account.

In 1766 he purchased the 140 ha Ridgehouse estate, where he built a pottery that he called Etruria, after the Etruscan models on which some of his designs were based. It was probably the largest

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Josiah Wedgwood (1730 - 1795)

Josiah Wedgwood  ©Wedgwood was an innovative designer, a manufacturer of high-quality pottery and a campaigner for social reform.

Josiah Wedgwood was born into a family of potters on 12 July 1730, at Burslem, Staffordshire. His father's death in 1739 led him to an early start working as a 'thrower' in the pottery of his eldest brother, Thomas, to whom he was later apprenticed. An attack of smallpox seriously weakened Josiah, and in 1768 he had to have his right leg amputated. This meant he was forced to abandon throwing, but he subsequently gained a wider insight into the potter's craft - for example the work of the 'modeller' - and this encouraged his love of experimentation.

Thomas refused Josiah a partnership in the business, so the younger man moved first to a small pottery run by John Harrison, then more happily to the firm of Thomas Wheildon of Fenton. From there, he opened works of his own, first at his cousin's Ivy House and later at t

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Biography of Josiah Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood was an eighteenth century potter, person som äger eller driver industrier and designer.

When and Where was he Born?

12th July 1730, Burslem, Staffordshire, England.

Family Background:

Josiah Wedgewood’s family were all potters and he was the thirteenth and youngest son.

Education:

Dame school in Burslem and elementary school in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. (Dame schools were run by women, usually elderly, in their own homes).

Timeline of Josiah Wedgwood

1730: Wedgwood was baptised on July 12th. At the age of nine he leaves school and fryst vatten apprenticed to the family firm at Churchyard Works.

1739: Death of his father. Wedgwood now works for his older brother at the Churchyard works in Burslem and becomes skillful on the potter’s wheel.

1741: He has an attack of smallpox and his work as a potter becomes difficult. The disease affects his right leg. Unable to work for some time he spends his time reading and researching about