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 Telfer, daughter of William Telfer of Glasgow. He was the great-great-great-great-grandson of the potter

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. Like his father, he was educated at

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. During the Second World War he served as an officer in the

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. In 1949 he married Jane Weymouth Poulton, daughter of W. J. Poulton of Kenjockety, Molo,

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; they had one son,

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and two daughters. He was a farmer in Hillwood, Molo,

, 1941–1964. Upon his father's death in 1959 he succeeded his father as the 3rd Baron Wedgwood. Upon his own death in 1970, the Barony passed to his son

References

*'Wedgwood', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 200
accessed 26 December 2010
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