CHAPTER XXL 



CHILDREN OF JOSIAH WEDGWOOD AND THEIR ALLIANCES 

 THEIR DESCENDANTS. DARWIN' S " ORIGIN OF SPECIES." 



JOHN WEDGWOOD. LETTER OF JOSIAH WEDGWOOD. 



THOMAS WEDGWOOD. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 

 GENEROUS HELP ACCORDED TO HIM BY THE BROTHERS 

 WEDGWOOD. THOMAS WEDGWOOD'S RESEARCHES INTO THE 

 PROPERTIES OF LIGHT. DISCOVERS PHOTOGRAPHY. SIR 

 HUMPHREY DAVY. JOSIAH WEDGWOOD THE SECOND. WAR 

 WITH FRANCE I MARBLES USED AS BULLETS. THOMAS 

 BYERLEY. DEATH OF THOMAS BYERLEY CHANGE IN THE 



FIRM. MANUFACTURE OF CHINA AT ETRURIA. STONE 



CHINA. DEATH OF MRS. WEDGWOOD. JOHN BOYLE BE- 

 COMES A PARTNER. ROBERT BROWN TAKEN IN PARTNER- 

 SHIP. MARKS USED ON WEDGWOOD WARE. " WEDG- 

 WOOD AND CO." INJUNCTION AGAINST MESSRS. W. SMITH 

 AND OTHERS, OF STOCKTON. 



ON the 3rd of January, 1795, as I have stated, Josiah 

 Wedgwood died. By this wife, of whom I have before 

 spoken, he had a family of eight children. The eldest child, 

 Susannah, baptised at Burslem, on the 2nd of January, 

 1765, married Dr. Robert Darwin, of Shrewsbury, son of the 

 celebrated Dr. Erasmus Darwin, of Derby (and half-brother 

 to Sir Francis Darwin, M.D., of Breadsall Priory, and 

 Sydnope, Darley Dale, both in Derbyshire), by his first wife, 

 Mary Howard, of Lichfield, and was the mother, along with 

 other sons and daughters, of Charles Darwin, author of 

 the " Origin of Species," &c. The second child of Josiah 

 Wedgwood was John, baptised at Burslem, April 2nd, 1 766. 

 He was of Seabridge, and married Louisa Jane, daughter 



