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So far as my knowledge goes, these instances, and that of 

 i, Etruria, to which I shall yet have occasion to refer, are 

 all which have occurred in which the Wedgwoods have been 

 practical makers of china ware. With earthenware as I 

 have shown, nearly every member of the family, until late 

 years, has apparently been connected, and at the present 

 day, besides the establishment at Etruria, the representa- 

 tive of another branch of the family, Mr. Enoch Wedg- 

 wood, has a large manufactory at Tunstall, where he employs 

 six or seven hundred hands, and does a large home, as well 

 as to some extent a foreign, trade. 



In my last chapter I spoke of Francis Eginton, and it 

 will be well here to give my readers some little information 

 concerning him, as his, like that of many other deserving 

 men, has hitherto been a " neglected biography." Francis 

 Eginton was a man of great ability as an artist, and his 

 productions were much esteemed in his own day, as, indeed, 

 they are now. His acquaintance with Josiah Wedgwood 

 was productive, it is believed, of some improvements in the 

 colours and in the body of wares, which his intimate know- 



ledge of chemistry, of colours, and o fire, made him capable 

 of experimenting upon. 



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