Thomas Wedgwood IV
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Thomas Wedgwood IV (1716 – 23 February 1773) 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
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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". After the death of his first wife, he married Jane Richards (1715–1785), with whom he had three children.[3]
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