LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Mrs Charles Darwin, 1839. From a water-colour painting by George 



Kichmond, R.A., in possession of Charles Galton Darwin. 



Frontispiece 



The Wedgwood family at Etruria Hall in or about 1780. From 

 the picture by George Stubbs, R.A. ? in possession of Cecil 

 Wedgwood of The Woodhouse, Cheadle. Stubbs was the famous 

 animal painter of the time, and was especially noted for his 

 pictures of horses to face p. 8 



Thomas Wedgwood. From a chalk drawing belonging to Mrs 

 Vaughan Williams of Leith Hill Place. Artist unknown 



to face p. 12 



Elizabeth (Allen), Wife of Josiah Wedgwood of Maer Hall. From the 

 portrait by Romney in the possession of Mrs Vaughan Williams 

 of Leith Hill Place. Painted when she was about twenty-eight 



to face p. 22 



Fanny Allen, aged 24. From a miniature by Leakey in possession 

 of Mrs Godfrey Wedgwood of Idlerocks, Staffordshire 



to face p. 36 



Maer Hall. From a pencil sketch by Charlotte Wedgwood (Mrs 

 C. Langton) in possession of Mrs Godfrey Wedgwood of 

 Idlerocks, Staffordshire to face p. 52 



Josiah Wedgwood of Maer Hall. From the portrait by Owen in 

 possession of Mrs Vaughan Williams of Leith Hill Place 



to face p. 60 



Mrs John Wedgwood. From an oil painting by Sir Thomas 

 Lawrence, R.A., in possession of Mrs Clement Allen of Wood- 

 chester ........ to face p. 74 



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