CHAPTER XXIII. 



WEDGWOOD MEMORIALS. THE WEDGWOOD STATUE AT STOKE. 



ADDRESS OF THE PROMOTERS. WEDGWOOD MEMORIAL 



INSTITUTE AT BURSLEM. MR. GLADSTONE LAYS THE FIRST 

 STONE. HIS VIEWS ON THE ADVANTAGES OF THE PRO- 

 POSED INSTITUTION. CASKET MADE BY MESSRS. DAVEN- 

 PORT. TROWEL BY MR. MACINTYRE. MR. W. WOODALL. 



RATIONS. DECORATIONS DESCRIBED. WEDGWOOD MEMO- 

 RIAL JUG. MESSRS. C. MEIGH AND CO.'S EARTHENWARE 



WORKS. HAPPY ARRANGEMENT BY WHICH EACH OF THE 

 THREE TOWNS POSSESSES ITS MEMORIALS OF WEDGWOOD. 



AND now a word or two on what has been done of late 

 years, and what is now doing, to do honour to, and to per- 

 petuate the memory of, the great and good Josiah Wedg- 

 wood, the founder of the Etruria Works, whose full biography 

 I have the proud satisfaction of having been the first to 

 write, and the history of which I have here, for the first 

 time, prepared and given to the world. 



It is true that the works of Josiah Wedgwood form, and 

 will remain, his greatest, proudest, and most lasting monu- 

 ment, but it is equally true that to him, above most men, 

 it was fit that not only a national and public monument 

 should be erected, but that an institution, such as he would 

 have gloried in supporting, should be founded in connection 

 with his name, and in the district which he had so much 

 benefited, and, indeed, raised to its high state of prosperity. 

 It was fit that a public monument should be erected, and it 

 was equally fit that an educational and art institution should 



