Wedgwood

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Meaning

An English habitational surname from a place in Staffordshire.

Josiah Wedgwood, English potter.

(ceramics) The ceramic ware with white embossed cameos made by this potter, and the company that bears his name.

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People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. Margaret Thatcher

[The Labour Party's leadership is] dominated by rather rootless intellectuals or obviously bourgeois eccentrics like Mr Michael Foot and Mr Wedgwood Benn. Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

After passing on his company to his sons, Wedgwood died at home, probably of cancer of the jaw, in 1795. Source: Internet

As a result of the close association that grew up between the Wedgwood and Darwin families, Josiah's eldest daughter would later marry Erasmus' son. Source: Internet

Anything Wedgwood made for the Queen was automatically exhibited before it was delivered. Source: Internet

Around the year 1800, Thomas Wedgwood made the first known attempt to capture the image in a camera obscura by means of a light-sensitive substance. Source: Internet

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