Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 4th Baronet

Who is Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 4th Baronet?

Professor Sir Ralph Nicholas Wedgwood, 4th Baronet is a British philosopher.

Wedgwood was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the only son of Martin Wedgwood, later 3rd Baronet, and his wife the architectural historian Alexandra, daughter of the judge and crime novelist, Alfred Gordon Clark. He was named after his great-grandfather, Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet; his first name is pronounced /ˈreɪf/. Wedgwood is a great-great-great-great-great-grandson of the master potter Josiah Wedgwood. He inherited the Wedgwood Baronetcy of Etruria upon the death of his father on 12 October 2010. The heir presumptive to the Baronetcy is John Julian Wedgwood, son of the 2nd Baronet.

Wedgwood was educated at Westminster School, Magdalen College, Oxford; King's College London and Cornell University, New York, USA. He then was Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also in the USA. He was Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oxford and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 2002, becoming full professor in 2007.