Clement Wedgwood

Clement Francis Wedgwood (25 February 1840 – 24 January 1889) was an English businessman, a partner in the Wedgwood pottery firm.[1]

The son of Francis Wedgwood and his wife Frances Mosley. He was a great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood. He married Emily Catherine Rendel, daughter of the engineer James Meadows Rendel, on 6 November 1866, and they had five sons, one of whom died in infancy:[2]

  • Francis Hamilton Wedgwood, JP, High Sheriff, (1867–1930)
  • Clement Henry Wedgwood (1870–1871) died in infancy
  • Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood (1872–1943)
  • Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet (1874–1956) 1st baronet, chief officer of the LNER for 16 years.
  • Arthur Felix Wedgwood (1877–1917), killed during the First World War [3]

References
  1. http://www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk/learning/discovery_packs/pack/lives-of-the-wedgwoods/chapter/clement-wedgwood-1840-89
  2. Josiah C. Wedgwood, Wedgwood Pedigrees, 1925
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