1 94 Josiah Wedgwood CHAP, xvi 



1774. Sarah, 25th September 1776. Mary-Anne, 18th 

 August 1778, but died in the following April. 



No one loved children more than Wedgwood. As 

 his wife was a model mother, so was he a model father. 

 Though often engrossed by business, he was always 

 true and faithful to his children, who were all alike 

 in his eyes and heart ; each receiving their share of his 

 affection. He was firm yet tender. He gave them his 

 love, and they repaid him with their obedience. As the 

 boys grew up into men, and the girls into women, he 

 was proud of their handsome presence and their 

 intellectual attainments. 



Wedgwood was most careful as to their training and 

 education. There were governesses for the daughters, 

 and tutors for the sons. One of the tutors who resided 

 for some time in Wedgwood's family, was John Leslie, 

 afterwards Professor of Natural Philosophy in the 

 University of Edinburgh, one of the most distinguished 

 scientific men of his age. Wedgwood, with his usual 

 liberality, conferred an annuity of 150 on John Leslie 

 for the careful instruction he had given to his sons. 

 It is not improbable that Leslie's investigations into 

 light and heat had some influence in determining 

 Thomas Wedgwood's studies, and leading him to become 

 the inventor of heliotype in other words, of photo- 

 graphic science, before Daguerre turned his attention 

 to the subject. 



