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Josiah Wedgwood

1730 - 1795

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Josiah Wedgwood (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) was an English potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist. Founding the Wedgwood company in 1759, he developed improved pottery bodies by systematic experimentation, and was the leader in the industrialisation of the manufacture of European pottery. The renewed classical enthusiasms of the late 1760s and early 1770s were of major importance to his sales promotion. His expensive goods were in much demand from the upper classes, while he used emulation effects to market cheaper sets to the rest of society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josiah Wedgwood is the 32nd most popular designer (up from 35th in 2019), the 1,397th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,327th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Designer.

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Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Josiah Wedgwood ranks 32 out of 104. Before him are Iris Apfel, Philippe Starck, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Raymond Loewy, Pierre Balmain, and Manolo Blahnik. After him are Jimmy Choo, Dieter Rams, Claude Garamond, Beau Brummell, Jeanne Lanvin, and Andokides painter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Josiah Wedgwood ranks 9. Before him are Henry Clinton, Johann Georg Hamann, Étienne Bézout, Jan Ingenhousz, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, and Pieter Boddaert. After him are Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, James Bruce, Otto Friedrich Müller, and Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham. Among people deceased in 1795, Josiah Wedgwood ranks 15. Before him are Georg Benda, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Carl Michael Bellman, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Pieter Boddaert, and Samuel Wallis. After him are John Sullivan, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria, Antonio de Ulloa, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, and James Boswell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Josiah Wedgwood ranks 1,397 out of 8,785. Before him are Geraldine McEwan (1932), John Lindley (1799), Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883), Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (1000), William Aiton (1731), and Kate Atkinson (1951). After him are Seamus Heaney (1939), Bob Hope (1903), Rafael Merry del Val (1865), William Whewell (1794), Saint David (512), and Samuel Pepys (1633).

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Among DESIGNERS In United Kingdom

Among designers born in United Kingdom, Josiah Wedgwood ranks 6. Before him are Thomas Andrews (1873), William Morris (1834), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868), Thomas Chippendale (1718), and Jony Ive (1967). After him are Beau Brummell (1778), Alexander McQueen (1969), John Baskerville (1706), Storm Thorgerson (1944), Laura Ashley (1925), and Paul Smith (1946).

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