CHAPTEK XIX. 



JOSIAH WEDGWOOD. HIS LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH. ETRURIA 

 HALL. BURIAL AT STOKE. MONODY BY REV. W. FERNY- 

 HOUGH. WEDGWOOD'S MONUMENT AT STOKE-UPON-TRENT. 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 



I HAVE already, before this digression, brought my narrative 

 down to the middle of the year 1793. In the following year 

 Josiah Wedgwood was seized with his last illness, and on 

 the 3rd of January, 1795, breathed his last. 



From the time when he first at that early age already 

 spoken of turned the lumbering potter's wheel in that old, 

 old room at the churchyard at Burslem, to the time when 

 he lay on his death-bed in that fine mansion, Etruria Hall 

 built on his own estate, and reared at his own co.st the 

 proprietor of the largest pottery manufactory in the world, 

 and looked up to by people of every class his mind had 

 ever been active, ever rising above his bodily ailments, ever 

 seeking out fresh scientific truths, and ever busying itself to 

 benefit his fellow-meji ; and in the midst of his most suc- 

 cessful labours after reaping to the full the reward of his 

 industry, his toil, and his research that mind which had 

 by its working been the support of thousands of his fellow- 

 creatures, and from which there are few who do not at the 

 present day derive benefit in some way or other, died out 

 but with his life, and left him resting from his worldly 

 toil. 



On the 3rd of January, 1795, Josiah Wedgwood died, and 

 on the 6th his remains were interred in the parish church 



