Francis Hamilton Wedgwood

Who was Francis Hamilton Wedgwood?

Francis Hamilton "Frank" Wedgwood JP DL JP and High Sheriff was a partner in the Wedgwood pottery firm.

Wedgwood was the eldest son of Clement Wedgwood and Emily Catherine Rendel, daughter of the engineer James Meadows Rendel. He was the great-great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood. His younger brothers were Sir Ralph Wedgwood and Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood.

Wedgwood was educated at Clifton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.

He married Katherine Gwendoline Pigott, daughter of the Rev. Edmund Vincent Pigott, of Doddershall Park, on 11 September 1902 in Trentham and they had three children:

Frances Dorothea Joy Wedgwood

Cecily Stella Wedgwood, artist for Wedgwood

Clement Tom Wedgwood

During the Boer War he served as a Captain with the 4th Bn North Staffordshire Regiment. During the First World War he also served as a recruiting officer.

He became managing director of Wedgwood in 1916 when his uncle Cecil Wedgwood was killed at the Battle of the Somme. He was also a director of the LMS Railway. He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1929. He died suddenly in 1930 in Euston, London and was buried at Barlaston; his nephew Josiah Wedgwood V became the managing director of Wedgwood.