CHAPTER XVIII. 



CHINA MANUFACTURE. JONATHAN WEDGWOOD. AGREEMENT 



WITH WILLIAM DUESBURY, OF THE DERBY CHINA WORKS. 



ABNER WEDGWOOD. CHINA MADE FROM GUANO. ENOCH 

 WEDGWOOD. FRANCIS EGINTON, INVENTOR OF POLYGRA- 

 PHIC PICTURES. MUG GIVEN HIM BY JOSIAH WEDGWOOD. 

 MATTHEW BOULTON, OF THE SOHO WORKS. LETTERS 

 OF EGINTON. THE " EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS." LETTER OF 

 BOULTON, OBJECTING TO A PENSION FOR EGINTON. EGIN- 

 TON'S WORKS IN STAINED GLASS. WILLIAM RAPHAEL 

 EGINTON. LETTER OF JOSIAH WEDGWOOD. ETRUSCAN 

 VASE AND FRENCH PIE. 



IT is an interesting feature in the annals of the Wedgwoods, 

 that although its head and chief, the " Great Josiah," was 

 not at any time a maker of china ware, other members of 

 that family were, during his lifetime, connected practically 

 with it, and that his sons, as I shall shortly show, after- 

 wards embarked in the trade. 



I have shown that Aaron Wedgwood, in conjunction with 

 his brother-in-law, Littler, was one of the, indeed the 

 earliest maker of china in the pottery district. Another 

 member of the family, a Jonathan Wedgwood, also was a 

 " China or Porcelain Repairer or Thrower " in the latter 

 half of last century, and was connected with William 

 Duesbury in the Derby China Works, as will be seen by 

 the following copy of the draft of agreement from the 

 original document in my possession. The agreement, it will 

 be seen, was for an engagement for the term of three years, 

 at the weekly wages of fourteen shillings, out of which 



