Francis Charles Bowen Wedgwood, 2nd Baron Wedgwood of Barlaston (20 January 1898 – 22 April 1959) was a British artist and hereditary peer.

Biography

The son of

Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, (16 March 1872 – 26 July 1943), sometimes referred to as Josiah Wedgwood IV, was a British Liberal and Labour politician who served in government under Ramsay MacDonald. He was a promin ...

and his wife Ethel Kate Bowen, the daughter of Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen. He was the great-great-great-grandson of the potter

Josiah Wedgwood 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 indus ...

. He was educated at

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. During the

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he served as an officer in the

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and later the Royal Flying Corps. After the war, in 1920, he married Edith May Telfer, daughter of William Telfer of Glasgow. They had one son, The Hon. Hugh Wedgwood (born 1921), later 3rd Baron Wedgwood. Wedgwood studied at the

Burslem School of Art Burslem School of Art was an art school in the centre of the town of Burslem in the Potteries district of England. Students from the school played an important role in the local pottery industry. Pottery was made on the site of the school from th ...

(1920–1922), and the

Slade School of Art The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...

(1922–1925). He exhibited at the

New English Art Club The New English Art Club (NEAC) was founded in London in 1885 as an alternative venue to the Royal Academy. It continues to hold an annual exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Mall Galleries in London, exhibiting works by both members and a ...

, (1927–1930) and Royal Academy (1931–1939). Upon the death of his father in 1943, he became the 2nd Baron Wedgwood. Upon his own death in 1959, the title passed to his only son,

Hugh Wedgwood, 3rd Baron Wedgwood Hugh Everard Wedgwood, 3rd Baron Wedgwood (20 April 1921 – 25 April 1970) was the third Baron Wedgwood of the pottery dynasty. Biography He was the son and only child of The Hon. Francis Wedgwood (later 2nd Baron) and his wife Edith May Telfe ...

References

* 'WEDGWOOD', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200
accessed 26 Dec 2010
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