Josiah Wedgwood III


Josiah "Joe" Wedgwood III, a grandson of the English potter Josiah Wedgwood.
Wedgwood was the eldest son of Josiah Wedgwood II and his wife Elizabeth Allen. He was born nine days after the death of his grandfather. He was taken into the 1823 partnership in the Wedgwood business by his father and was employed there until 1842 when he retired to Leith Hill Place in Surrey.
He married his cousin Caroline Darwin, the daughter of Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood, the sister of Charles Darwin. They had four daughters, one of whom died in infancy: