CHAPTEE XI 



IMPROVEMENT OF MODELS CHEMISTRY 



MR. WEDGWOOD, having now firmly established the 

 manufacture of Queen's Ware, and vigorously assisted 

 in the organisation of the Grand Trunk Canal, felt it 

 necessary to attend to his own special business. He 

 was still anxious to devote himself to the study of 

 chemistry as applied to clays and mineral substances, 

 with a view to the production of a higher class of goods. 

 His cousin Thomas, who had been foreman in his 

 manufactory, attended to his London business, and 

 became a partner in the sale of his useful class of 

 goods. 



Josiah Wedgwood proceeded with great industry in 

 the study of chemistry. In course of time he produced 

 a number of different kinds of ware unknown before, 

 and which soon gained for him a lasting and honourable 

 fame. The Queen's Ware was greatly improved, and 

 eventually caused an immense demand, not only in 

 England, but throughout the Continent. This ware was 

 composed of the whitest clays from Devonshire, Dorset- 



