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Hensleigh Wedgwood




For finishing bottom in the Classical Tripos at Cambridge in 1824, Wedgwood was awarded the first "wooden wedge", equivalent to the Wooden Spoon .

He married Frances Emma Elizabeth Mackintosh (Fanny) ( 1800 - 1889 ) in 1832, the daughter of Sir James Mackintosh and his second wife Catherine (Kitty) Allen, who was sister-in-law of Josiah Wedgwood . It was an open family secret that Hensleigh's cousin Erasmus Alvey Darwin was carrying on with Fanny. They had the children:



EXTERNAL LINKS

  • http://darwin.lib.cam.ac.uk/perl/nav?class=name;term=Wedgwood%2C%20Hensleigh

  • http://wardsbookofdays.com/2june.htm Hensleigh Wedgwood and The Wooden Spoon @ ''Ward's Book of Days''