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Josiah Wedgwood 



accident to his right knee, 59 ; 

 makes acquaintance with Beutley, 

 60 ; friends at Liverpool, 61 ; 

 correspondence with Bentley, 62 ; 

 Wedgwood's marriage, 64 ; merits 

 of his wife, 64, 67, 70, 121, 

 126, 142, 156, 290 ; trade of 

 Wedgwood, 70 ; patronised by 

 King and Queen, 73 ; rage for 

 vases, 74, 81 ; service for Empress 

 of Eussia, 82 ; buys Ridgehouse 

 estate, afterwards Etruria, 85 ; 

 Etruria established, 86 ; partner- 

 ship with Bentley, 88 ; continuous 

 experiments, 89 ; Grand Trunk 

 Canal, 97 ; first sod cut, 100 ; 

 appointed treasurer, 101 ; new 

 earthenware introduced, 106 ; 

 artists employed by Wedgwood, 

 109 ; starts a School of Art, 115 ; 

 amputation of leg, 121 ; his many 

 wooden legs, 124 ; attacks of 

 blindness, 126, 146 ; first fruits 

 of Etruria, 136 ; want of money, 



143 ; opponent of slave trade, 



144 ; executes portraits, medal- 

 lions and plaques, 148 ; opposes 

 renewal of Cookworthy's patent, 

 178 ; journey into Cornwall, 

 180 ; thermometers, 181 ; elected 

 Fellow of the Koyal Society, 181 ; 

 experiments on flint glass, 182 ; 

 a geologist, 182 ; his Common- 

 place Book, 181-82 ; the ancient 

 British, 184 ; Mount Edgecumbe, 

 185 ; Land's End, 188 ; pur- 

 chases an estate with Growan 



stone, 189 ; journeys homeward, 

 191 ; his family, 193 ; Wedgwood 

 and Flaxman, 195 ; sons of 

 Wedgwood his pupils, 208 ; his 

 letters, 238 ; death of Bentley, 

 240-42 : member of Royal Society, 

 247 ; a pamphleteer, 252 ; Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, 254 ; Portland 

 Vase, 259 ; Wedgwood's imita- 

 tion, 263 ; difficulties in copying 

 Portland Vase, 266-70 ; journey 

 to Meissen, 271 ; Portland vase 

 broken by a lunatic, 272 ; sons 

 with Byerley in Paris, 274 ; 

 Byerley a partner, 278 ; Wedg- 

 wood's many accomplishments, 

 280 ; assistants in Italy, 282 ; life 

 coining to an end, 282 ; Wedg- 

 wood and Priestley, 284 ; declin- 

 ing health, 285 ; his generosity, 

 286 ; offers 1000 to National 

 Gallery of Sculpture, 287 ; death 

 from gangrene, 288 ; Wedgwood's 

 character, 289-99 

 Wesley, Charles, at Walsall, 91 

 Wesley, John, at Burslem, 12, 92 

 Westmacott, sculptor, 256 

 Whieldon, partnership with, 32 

 Wilcox and wife, 114-116 

 Willet, death of Mr., 166 

 Wolverhampton Canal, 100 

 Workmen, difficulties with, 42, 44, 



75 



Wright of Derby, artist, 114, 257 

 Wyatt, sculptor, 256 



YOUNG, Arthur, on roads, 92 



THE END 



Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh. 



