Researching John Wedgwood
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The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
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Some Famous People called John Wedgwood
John Allen Wedgwood
The Reverend John Allen Wedgwood (1796 – 19 July 1882), normally known as Allen Wedgwood was rector of Maer Staffordshire.
Wedgwood was the fifth of six children and the fourth and youngest son of John Wedgwood, the horticulturist, of Etruria, Staffordshire and Cote House, Bristol, and his wife Louisa Jane Allen, daughter of John Bartlett Allen of Cresselly, Pembrokeshire. His paternal grandfather had been the potter Josiah Wedgwood who died the year prior to his birth, and the Josiah Wedgwood & Sons pottery company that he had founded gave the family considerable wealth.
He was educated at Westminster School. He was ordained as a deacon in the Church of England in 1821 and a priest in 1822. He was admitted to Downing College, Cambridge in 1824 as a ten-year man.
On 29 January 1839, he officiated at the wedding of his cousins Charles Darwin and Emma Wedgwood in an Anglican ceremony arranged to also suit the Unitarians in St Peter's Church at Maer Hall. Some years later, aged he also officiated at the funeral of Charles' brother Erasmus Alvey Darwin in 1881. He himself died the year after in Winchcomb, Gloucestershire.
Source: John Allen Wedgwood, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Wedgwood (doctor)
John Wedgwood CBE (28 September 1919 – 30 August 2007), was until his death the heir presumptive to the barony Wedgwood, as elder son of the second son of the 1st Baron Wedgwood. He was a noted British medical doctor, whose death was commemorated with a long obituary in The Daily Telegraph; his area of specialisation was geriatric medicine and improving conditions for elderly patients.
John Wedgwood was the elder son of the Hon. Josiah Wedgwood – later the managing director of the Wedgwood pottery firm – by his wife the former Dorothy Mary Winser. He was educated at Abbotsholme School and then at Trinity College, Cambridge before going on to Guy's Hospital. He studied surgery but was wounded during the Second World War, which left him unable to stand for long periods of time and therefore unable to practice surgery. He switched to general medicine, initially specialising in cardiology before becoming interesting in geriatric and disability medicine. In 1987 he was appointed CBE for his work.
He was twice married, and had three sons and two daughters by his first wife Margaret Mason whom he married 1943 and divorced 1971. He was also survived by his second wife Jo Tamlyn (née Ripsher) whom he married in 1972.
From 1970 he was the heir presumptive to his nephew, the 4th Baron Wedgwood. His eldest son, Antony John Wedgwood, born in 1944, succeeded as the 5th Baron in January 2014.
He is buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.
Source: John Wedgwood (doctor), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Wedgwood
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