John Templeton (botanist)
John Templeton( 1766–1825) was an early Irish naturalist and botanist.
He is often referred to as the" Father of Irish Botany".
He was the father of naturalist, artist and entomologist Robert Templeton.
Amasa Walker
Amasa Walker( May 4, 1799 – October 29, 1875) was an American economist and United States Representative, and the father of Francis Amasa Walker.
Francis Wedgwood (1800–1888)
Francis Wedgwood (25 November 1800 – 2 October 1888)
a grandson of the English potter Josiah Wedgwood
Born in Tarrant Gunville, Dorset
, Wedgwood was the son of the MP Josiah Wedgwood II.
He became a partner in the Wedgwood firm in 1827 and was left in sole charge after the retirement of his father and elder brother Josiah Wedgwood III.
On 26 April 1832 in Rolleston on Dove, he married Frances Mosley, daughter of the Rev. John Peploe Mosley, rector of Rolleston.
She was the granddaughter of the late Sir John Parker Mosley, 1st Baronet, and cousin to Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet.
Francis and Frances had seven children:
Economic difficulties in the 1840s led to Etruria Works and Etruria Hall being put up for sale, though only the hall was sold, because he had no inclination to live there, as the location had become compromised.
He built a new house on a small estate at Barlaston, which, if less grand, was in a better situation.
He was joined in business by his eldest son Godfrey, and later by his younger sons Clement Francis Wedgwood and Laurence.
Wedgwood retired from business in 1876 and died at Barlaston, Staffordshire in 1888.
Josiah Wedgwood II
Josiah Wedgwood II (3 April 1769 – 12 July 1843), the son of the English potter Josiah Wedgwood, continued his father's firm and was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-upon-Trent from 1832 to 1835.
He was an abolitionist, and detested slavery.
Josiah and his brother Thomas gave their friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge a life annuity of £150, with the goal of freeing Coleridge from financial worries and the need to support himself by noncreative work, so that he could pursue his literary and philosophical interests.
This was offered in January 1798, and accepted by Coleridge, who was then a probationary minister in the Unitarian Church, with the condition he discontinued in the ministry.
In 1807, Wedgwood bought Maer Hall in Staffordshire and his family lived there until his death in 1843.
Wedgwood was responsible for the Wedgwood Company's first bone china wares.
Wedgwood married Elizabeth Allen (1764–1846)
and they had four sons and five daughters, two of whom married their first cousins, the offspring of Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood:
Josiah F. Wedgwood
Josiah Francis Wedgwood, also known as Josiah Wedgwood VII( February 1, 1950- November 27, 2009) was an American physician and paediatric immunologist.
In 1982 he married Ruth Glushien, daughter of Morris P. Glushien.
They had one son, Josiah Ruskin Wedgwood( born 1998).
Wedgwood died unexpectedly on November 27, 2009, while in Paris to meet his family for Thanksgiving, from an undetermined cause.
Obata Toramori
He was the father of Obata Masamori.
Paul Wedgwood
Paul Wedgwood( born June 1970) is one of three founders of video game developer Splash Damage and was the CEO of the company until end of 2018.
Sir John Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Hamilton Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet TD (16 November 1907 – 9 December 1989) was a British politician and industrialist.
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Wedgwood was the son of Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet and his wife Iris Veronica Pawson, daughter of Albert Henry Pawson.
He was a great-great-great-grandson of the master potter Josiah Wedgwood.
His younger sister was the historian C.V. Wedgwood.
Sir John was educated at Winchester College, at Trinity College, Cambridge and in Europe, where he learnt several languages.
He married Diane Hawkshaw in 1933.
She was the daughter of Oliver Hawkshaw, the granddaughter of Cecily Mary Wedgwood, and the great-granddaughter of Francis Wedgwood (1800-1888), and Ruth Stewart Hodgson, granddaughter of William Forsyth QC.
He was the son of Ralph Wedgwood, grandson of Clement Wedgwood, great-grandson of Francis Wedgwood (1800-1888), which meant they were second cousins.
They had four sons and one daughter.
He joined the family pottery firm in 1931 and was appointed Deputy Chairman in 1955.
He worked as a travelling salesman and representative of the firm, a role which took him across the globe.
During the Second World War he served as a Military Intelligence Staff Officer in the Arctic and in Italy.
In 1948 he rejoined the Territorial Army and became the 2nd in command of the North Staffordshire Regiment.
In 1982, after the death of his first wife, he remarried Pamela Tudor-Craig, a medieval art historian.
His uncle Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood had been a Liberal and Labour politician and cabinet minister.
John Wedgwood stood for the Liberals at the 1945 election at Stone, but was not elected.
He then deserted the Liberals to become the Conservative Party's candidate for Leek, but was not elected there either.
He did however serve as magistrate for Stone, Staffordshire.
Wedgwood had a love for outdoor pursuits, particularly cave diving and mountain climbing.
He was a life vice-president of the British Sub Aqua Club.
He inherited the Wedgwood Baronetcy and title on the death of his father on 5 September 1956.
On his own death in 1989 the baronetcy passed to his son, the 3rd Baronet Sir Martin Wedgwood (born 1933; died 12 October 2010).
Cleomenes II
Cleomenes II( died 309 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from 369 to 309 BC.
The son of Cleombrotus I, he succeeded his brother Agesipolis II.
He was the father of Acrotatus I, the father of Areus I, and of Cleonymus, the father of Leonidas II.
Clement Wedgwood
Clement Francis Wedgwood( 25 February 1840 – 24 January 1889) was an English businessman, a partner in the Wedgwood pottery firm.
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:

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