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INDEX. 



et seq. ; objects to take out patents, 

 144 ; introduction of printing on 

 earthenware, 146, et seq. ; sends his 

 earthenware to Liverpool to be 

 printed, 150 ; improvement of turn- 

 pike roads, 153, 162, 170; marries 

 his cousin, Sarah Wedgwood, 155 ; 

 takes the Ivy House at Burslem^ 

 155 ; pedigree of Josiah and Sarah, 

 158 ; project for new school at Bur- 

 slem, 161; visits Liverpool, 164; 

 illness there, 164 ; introduction to 

 Thomas Bentley, 164 ; promotes the 

 Grand Trunk Canal, 167, et seq. ; 

 offers 1,000 towards it, 169; cuts 

 the first sod of the canal, 173 ; takes 

 Thomas Wedgwood into partnership, 

 177 ; imports clay from North Ame- 

 rica, 183 ; researches into clays, 184 ; 

 et seq. ; invents "Basaltes," or "Egyp- 

 tian Black" ware, 186, 187, et seq. ; 

 his inventions of bodies, 187, et seq. ; 

 purchases Ridge House estate, 191 ; 

 founds the works at Etruria, 191 : 

 erection of Black Works, 191 ; takes 

 Thomas Bentley into partnership, 

 193; founds the village of Etruria, 

 197 ; takes out patent for encaustic 

 painting, &c., 200 ; his specification, 

 201 ; throws the first vases, with 

 Bentley at the wheel, 204; estab- 

 lishment at Chelsea, 207; audience 

 of the king and queen, 210 ; service 

 for the Empress of Russia, 211 ; 

 issues his first catalogue, 213; hon- 

 ourable commercial principles, 218 ; 

 opposes the extension of patent right 

 in Cornish stone and clay, 237 ; 

 presents a memorial to parliament, 

 237 ; controversy with Champion, 

 238, et seq. ; enters into partnership 

 with Carthew, 263 ; employs John 

 Flaxman, 265; death of Thomas 

 Bentley, 265 ; elected F.R.S., 287 ; 

 portraits painted, 287; experiments 

 on black wadd, 288 ; thermometer 

 for measuring heat, 288, et seq. ; 

 chamber of commerce, 288 ; riots at 

 Etruria, 290, et seq. ; "Address to the 

 Young Inhabitants of the Potteries," 

 292, et seq. ; Portland Vase, 306, et seq. ; 

 letter of, concerning Portland Yase, 

 &c., 308 ; introduces clay from New 

 South Wales ; commemorative me- 

 dallion, 311; copied at Sevres, 312; 

 Dr. Darwin's lines on, 312 ; issues his 

 first fifty copies of the Portland Vase, 

 313 ; takes his sons and nephew into 

 partnership, 313; promotes the treaty 

 of commerce withSaxony, 318; tenders 



1,000 in aid of a National gallery of 

 sculpture, 312 ; classes into which 

 he divided his productions, 326, et 

 seq. ; analysis of catalogues, 327, et 

 seq. ; family group painted by Stubbs, 

 337 ; thermometers for measuring 

 heat, description of, 342, et seq.; lam- 

 poon about "Pitt-pots," &c., 344; 

 excellence of his wares attested by 

 St. Fond and others, 345 ; letter of, 

 concerning Etruscan vases, &c., 355 ; 

 last illness and death, 356, et seq., 

 359 ; his burial at Stoke-upon-Trent, 

 356, 357 ; monody on, by Rev. W. 

 Ferneyhough, 357, 358 ; obituary 

 notices, 359, et seq. ; portraits of, 364, 

 et seq. ; busts and statues of, 372, 

 373 ; his children and their de- 

 scendants, 374, et seq. ; letter of, 376 ; 

 public statue to, 373, 397, et seq. ; 

 Memorial Institute at Burslem, 401, 

 et seq. ; memorial jug, 409 ; cabinet 

 of trials, &c., 410, 411, 416 ; charac- 

 teristics, 412, et seq.; his will, 413; 

 friendship with Dr. Priestley and 

 others, 420 ; his religious views, 421 ; 

 what he did for Staffordshire, 421, 

 422. 



Wedgwood and Sons, Etruria Works, 

 and their productions, 387, et seq. ; 

 Jubilee group, 396. 



id Co., 384, et seq. ; injunc- 



Wedgwood anc 



tion against, 385. 

 AVedgwood marks, 383, et seq. 

 Wedgwood mortars, 311. 

 Wednesbury, 30, 49. 

 Welchman, 44. 



Wesley, John, visits the Potteries, 172. 

 Westaby, 116. 

 West, Benjamin, 330, 350. 

 Wetton, Celtic pottery, 10, 12, 14. 

 Wheatstone, 180. 

 Whieldon, Thomas, 67, 108111, 116, 



118 ; account of hirings, 110 ; builds 



new works, 111 ; high sheriff of 



Staffordshire, 119. 

 White stone ware, 59, 159. 

 White porcelain bisque, 178. 

 Whitworth, 171, 172. 

 Wilcox, 207. 

 Willet, Rev. Mr., 421. 

 Willets, 91. 

 Williams, 127, 264. 

 Williams, Sir C. H., 421. 

 Willington, 170. 

 Willingsworth, 49. 



Will of Josiah Wedgwood, 413, et seq. 

 Will of Thomas Wedgwood, 1678, 77 ; 



1739, 90. 

 Windmill, Brindley's, 160. 



