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In the 18th century a fortuitous supply of clay, coal and canals coupled with the ambitions of great innovators such as Josiah Wedgwood propelled the ceramics industry of the Potteries
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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'' 'Josiah Wedgwood' '' (1730 - 1795) was an English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.
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'' 'Josiah Wedgwood' '' (1730 - 1795) was an English industrialist whose
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Josiah Wedgwood and Thomas Bentley, the first manufacturers of pottery and among the first capitalists to seek broader markets for consumer products, acknowledged to each other that they could not allow their own tastes to determine what they produced.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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The family's traditional middle name of Wedgwood is a reminder that John Benn's wife was a relative of Josiah Wedgwood, founder of the pottery dynasty.
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As well as thousands of ceramics by Josiah Wedgwood 1730-1795, one of the world's greatest pottery manufacturers, the museum has thousands of documents, along with works by George Stubbs and Joshua Reynolds – "fellow Academicians", as Le Brun points out.
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The family's traditional middle name of Wedgwood is a reminder that John Benn's wife was a relative of Josiah Wedgwood, founder of the pottery dynasty.
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Its 8,000 objects tell the story not only of the entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood, but of the brilliant creative skills of the workers who made their city the global capital of the ceramic, china and pottery trades.
London's Big Smoke wins dubious European distinction Derek Brown 2010
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His biographies of James Watt, Richard Arkwright and Josiah Wedgwood were held up as beacons to guide the working man through his arduous life.
History used to be the study of great men. Now it's of Everyman Tristram Hunt 2010
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I think there has been a demonstrable philosemitic thread within the British people, discernible at all stratas of society - (the royal Duke of Sussex, Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, David Lloyd George, etc., etc.)
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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