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Wedgwood was born in Etruria Hall , the son of Francis Wedgwood and his wife Frances Mosley. He was taken into partnership by his father in 1859 , and was later joined by his younger brothers Clement and Laurence . He and his brother was responsible for the reintroduction of Bone China c. 1876 and the employment of the artists Thomas Allen and Emile Lessore .

In 1898 , like his great-grandfather Josiah Wedgwood , he suffered the Amputation of his right leg.

He married twice, first to Mary Jane Jackson Hawkshaw (c. 1836-1863) on 24 June 1862 at St. Peter Pimlico, Westminster, Middlesex with whom he had a son Cecil Wedgwood ( 1863 - 1916 ), but she died in 1863. And secondly on 14 October 1876 in Marylebone Registry Office to his cousin Hope Elizabeth Wedgwood, daughter of Hensleigh Wedgwood . They had a daughter Mary Euphrasia Wedgwood (1880-1952). He died at Idlerocks and is buried All Saints Churchyard in Moddershall , Staffordshire


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