Josiah Wedgwood V

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Josiah Wedgwood V
Born(1899-10-20)October 20, 1899
DiedMay 18, 1968(1968-05-18) (aged 68)
SpouseDorothy Mary Haskins
Children3 , including John Wedgwood
ParentJosiah Wedgwood IV
Ethel Kate Bowen

Josiah Wedgwood V (20 October 1899 – 18 May 1968) was the Managing Director of the Wedgwood pottery firm from 1930 until 1968 and credited with a transformation in the company's fortunes.[1][2][3][4]

Family

Wedgwood was one of seven children of Josiah Wedgwood IV (later Lord Wedgwood) and The Hon. Ethel Kate Bowen, daughter of Sir Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen. He was the great-great-great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood. His sister was the anthropologist Camilla Wedgwood.[citation needed]

He married Dorothy Mary Haskins née Winser in 1919 in Holborn and they had three children:

He succeeded his uncle Francis Hamilton Wedgwood as managing director on his uncle's death in 1930. Wedgwood modernised production and reinvigorated Wedgwood designs by the employment of artists such as John Skeaping, Keith Murray, Arnold Machin and Eric Ravilious. After his retirement in 1961, Arthur Bryan (later Sir) became managing director.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Robin Reilly, ‘Wedgwood, Josiah (1899–1968)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 accessed 26 May 2013
  2. ^ "Josiah Wedgwood V (1899-1968)". The Wedgwood Museum. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  3. ^ ‘WEDGWOOD, Hon. Josiah’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 26 May 2013
  4. ^ The Times, Monday, 6 May 1968; pg. 10; Issue 57244; col F The Hon J. Wedgwood President of pottery firm
  5. ^ Ochs, Hans D.; Chapel, Helen; Cunningham-Rundles, Charlotte; Schaller, Jane G. (February 2018). "Ralph Josiah Patrick Wedgwood (1924–2017)". Journal of Clinical Immunology. 38 (2): 153–154. doi:10.1007/s10875-017-0471-x.
  6. ^ Burke's Peerage (107th ed.). Stokesley: Burke's Peerage & Gentry. 2003. p. 4105. ISBN 978-0971196629.


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