Index 



303 



PACK-HORSES at Burslem, 3 

 Palissy, monument to, 174 

 Pingo, modeller, 113 

 Pitt, Thurlow's burlesque on, 58 

 Pitt, Lord Camelford, 175, 186 

 Plumier's VArt de Tourner, 69 

 Plymouth porcelain, 177 

 Plymouth, Wedgwood at, 185 

 Porcelain, history of, 169, 174 

 Portraits, execution of, 148 

 Potworks, country, 13 

 Prices of Wedgwood ware, 242, 269 

 Priestley and Wedgwood, 284 

 Prints on pottery, 57 

 Puzzle-jug, 9 

 Pyrometer, 243 



QUEEN'S ware, 56 



Queen's visit to Wedgwood's rooms, 

 230 



RATHBONE'S tribute to Wedgwood, 



230 



Reynolds, Sir J., 256 

 Rhodes, euameller, 114, 155 

 Ridgehouse estate, 85 

 Riots in cotton districts, 238 ; at 



Etruria, 251 

 Roads and highways, 10, 13, 51 ; 



improvements, 68, 91, 93 

 Romney, artist, 257 

 Russia, Empress's order, 82 



SADDLER employs prints for pottery, 



57 



Shaws and Wedgwoods, 8 

 Showrooms in London, 57, 79, 133, 



167 



Southwell, Mrs., 116 

 Spode, Josiah, apprentice, 33 

 Staffordshire in 1778, 165 

 Stouker, the, 22 

 Stringer, artist, 113 

 Stringer, Wedgwood's mother, 1 



TABLE-SERVICES for the King and 



Queen, 76, 77 

 Tassie, modeller, 112 

 Taylor, Birmingham, 55 

 Tea-services, 43 ; for Queen, 74 



Teignham, Lady, 156 

 Templeton, Lady, 257 

 Thermometer, 243-50 

 Thrower's occupation, 22 

 Tolcher, old, teetotaller, 190 

 Turner, Dr., Liverpool, 60 

 Turner, Lane End, 180 

 Twyford, idiot at Bradwell, 16 



VASES, rage for, 74, 81, 115, 117, 



137 

 Voyez, enameller, 112 



WAGES of potters, 10, 28, 33 



Warehouses in Newport Street, 137 ; 

 in Greek Street, Soho, 167 



Watt, James, 133 ; on commerce, 

 254 



Weaver navigation, 73, 97 



Webber, modeller, 256 



Wedgwood, Thomas, Josiah's father, 

 1 ; death of, 4, 20 ; his will, 5 ; 

 death of Josiah's mother, 28 



Wedgwood family, the, 7 ; their 

 origin, 7 ; Burslem Wedgwood, 

 8 ; the doctors Wedgwood, 9, 10 



Wedgwood, Josiah, birth and educa- 

 tion, 1 ; youngest of thirteen 

 children, 1,2; taste for modelling, 

 20 ; apprenticed as thrower, 21 ; 

 effects improvement in moulded 

 ware, 22 ; attacked by smallpox, 

 23 ; left severe pain in knee, 25 ; 

 sent to the moulder's board, 27 ; 

 his first teapot, 27 ; manufacture 

 of ornamental wares, 27 ; begins 

 making experiments, 27 ; brother 

 refuses to take him as partner, 

 30 ; partnership with Harrison 

 and Whieldon, 31 ; Wedgwood's 

 experiments, 34-38 ; begins busi- 

 ness, 40 ; cultivation of mind, 

 41 ; extends his premises, 43 ; 

 difficulties with workmen, 42, 44, 

 75 ; firing kilns, 45 ; reflections 

 at night, 47 ; improves the roads, 

 51 ; cost of transport, 52 ; in- 

 vents the engine lathe for pottery, 

 55 ; made potter to the Queen, 

 56, 76 ; burlesque on Pitt, 58 ; 



