Honorary Josiah Wedgwood
Born 1730 (Probable)
Pottery manufacturer
Born in Burslem, Staffordshire
Works
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Lent Life-Class
March 1950
Personal and Professional Connections
Employed Simon Birks
1867
See a single page letter from Josiah Wedgwood to Simon Birks dated 25 May 1867. The letter discusses Birks forthcoming employment as a modeller, and states that the company cannot employ his son becasue they already have an apprentice [see The Wedgwood Manuscripts, Wedwgood Archives, E49 29545].
Sources
Burslem School of Art, undated (c. 1911-1935) Burslem School of Art, 1911-1935
p. 1.
Letter from Josiah Wedgwood to Simon Birks, 25 May 1867
25 May 1867
Single page letter from Josiah Wedgwood to Simon Birks.
Society of Staffordshire Artists Sixteenth Annual Exhibition, 1950
March 1950
p. 11.
Citing this record
'Honorary Josiah Wedgwood', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1221140114, accessed 08 Jun 2023]
