Josiah wedgwood frs 12 july 1730 3 january 1795 was an english potter entrepreneur and abolitionist he founded the wedgwood company.
Josiah wedgwood ceramics.
3 1795 etruria staffordshire english pottery designer and manufacturer outstanding in his scientific approach to pottery making and known for his exhaustive researches into materials logical deployment of labour and sense of business organization.
For 200 years before he was born in the villages of north staffordshire potters had been using the local.
In 1765 shortly after opening his first london showroom he got a huge break when he was invited to take part in a contest to design a tea set for queen charlotte.
Josiah wedgwood s achievement is intimately bound up with the history of the potteries.
He developed improved pottery bodies by a long process of systematic experimentation and was the leader in the industrialisation of the manufacture of european pottery the chinese having achieved this long before.
Josiah wedgwood baptized july 12 1730 burslem now in stoke on trent staffordshire eng died jan.
English potter whose works are among the finest examples of ceramic art.