Enoch Wedgwood

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Enoch Wedgwood (* 1813 in Tunstall , Staffordshire , † May 29, 1879 in The Limes, Porthill , today a district of the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme , England ) was an English entrepreneur .

Life

Enoch Wedgwood was the third of five children of Isaac Wedgwood and Charlotte Wedgwood (née Cork). He came from the family of the uncle of Josiah Wedgwood , the founder of the Wedgwood porcelain factory (Enoch Wedgwood's great-great-grandfather was the brother of Josiah Wedgwood's father).

On November 14, 1837, he married Jane Mattinson (1814-1880), also from Tunstall, in Wolstanton , Staffordshire . The marriage resulted in seven children, of which the first child was born dead, a girl died in infancy and three other children died in childhood.

  • Stillbirth (1838)
  • Edmund Mattison Wedgwood (1840-1904)
  • Charlotte Hannah Wedgwood (1843-1919)
  • Alfred Joseph Wedgwood (1845–1846)
  • unbaptized girl (1847, death in infancy)
  • Anne Emily Wedgwood (1848-1851)
  • Alfred Enoch Wedgwood (1850-1894)
  • Herbert Edward Wedgwood (1853-1854)

Between 1850 and 1856, Enoch Wedgwood joined the company Podmore, Walker & Co, which operated three pottery factories in Tunstall, and from 1856 this company operated under the name Podmore, Walker & Wedgwood. Wedgwood took over the management of the company in 1860 and produced in one of these potteries (Unicorn Pottery and Pinnox Works in Amicable Street, Tunstall) from then on under the company name Wedgwood & Co. His brother, Jabez Charles Wedgwood (born February 18 1821 - March 22, 1880), joined the company.

The two sons Edmund Mattinson and Alfred Enoch both took up their father’s profession and, after the death of their father and their uncle, Enoch’s younger brother Jabez Charles Wedgwood, took over the father’s company two years later. After the conversion into a Ltd. Society in 1900, however, the family lost control of the company. Wedgwood & Co. Ltd. was renamed again in 1965 to Enoch Wedgwood (Tunstall) Ltd. and in 1980 by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. taken over and renamed Unicorn Pottery.

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SURNAME Wedgwood, Enoch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunstall , Staffordshire
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1879
Place of death The Limes, Porthill (England)