Cecil Wedgwood
Born 1863
Died July 1916
Active: 1883 - 1916
Country of birth and death: England
Director of pottery company
Cecil worked for Wedgwood in the early years of the twentieth century. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the 4th (Militia) Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment in 1883. He served in the Boer War, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1902. From 1910-11 he was first Mayor of the Federated County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent. However he was killed while serving as a Major in the North Staffs Regiment during the First World War. His wife Lucy was one of the first women magistrates, the first Lady Mayoress of Stoke-on-Trent, and became the first woman to be elected an Honorary Freeman of the city.
This record includes information from the Wedgwood Museum website and from Mike Whibberley.
Institutional and Business Connections
Director of Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd.)
1884 (Circa)
Listed as Director in Wedgwood's 'Roll of Honour', 1914-1919.
Sources
Great War Roll of Honour, 1914-1919
Unpaged.
The Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive
See a number of photographs in the Digital Archive of Cecil Wedgwood from his childhood and adulthood [reference no.s PORF 17,20,63, EOUT 39-43, MUSGRAPH 17,28 etc. The archive also includes photographs of the Lists of Hands on Works that he compiled in 1883, reviews etc.
Citing this record
'Cecil 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_1237305002, accessed 02 Jun 2023]
