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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josiah Wedgwood has received more than 845,549 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Josiah Wedgwood is the 35th most popular designer (up from 41st in 2019), the 1,326th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,535th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Designer.

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Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Josiah Wedgwood ranks 35 out of 104. Before him are Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Pierre Balmain, Claude Garamond, Dieter Rams, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Giambattista Bodoni. After him are Alexander McQueen, Beau Brummell, Jeanne Lanvin, Mariano Fortuny, Adrian Frutiger, and Andokides painter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Josiah Wedgwood ranks 8. Before him are Charles Messier, Johann Georg Hamann, Étienne Bézout, Jan Ingenhousz, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, and Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia. After him are Antonio Sacchini, James Bruce, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, Velu Nachiyar, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, and William Hamilton. Among people deceased in 1795, Josiah Wedgwood ranks 10. Before him are Sayat-Nova, François-André Danican Philidor, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Georg Benda, Carl Michael Bellman, and Ahilyabai Holkar. After him are Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria, James Boswell, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, and Samuel Wallis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Josiah Wedgwood ranks 1,326 out of 8,785. Before him are Arthur Machen (1863), Adrian Smith (1957), Tom Simpson (1937), Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence (1451), Anne Lister (1791), and Tom Pryce (1949). After him are Charles Frederick Worth (1825), Ian Anderson (1947), Martin Gore (1961), Geraldine McEwan (1932), Margaret Stewart, Dauphine of France (1424), and Blanche of Lancaster (1345).

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Among DESIGNERS In United Kingdom

Among designers born in United Kingdom, Josiah Wedgwood ranks 5. Before him are Thomas Andrews (1873), William Morris (1834), Thomas Chippendale (1718), and Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868). After him are Alexander McQueen (1969), Beau Brummell (1778), John Baskerville (1706), Paul Smith (1946), Laura Ashley (1925), Storm Thorgerson (1944), and Jony Ive (1967).

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