Background
The son of Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood and his wife Ethel Kate Bowen, the daughter of Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen.
The son of Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood and his wife Ethel Kate Bowen, the daughter of Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen.
He was educated at Bedales School.
He was the great-great-great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood. During the First World War he served as an officer in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and later the Royal Flying Corps. They had one son, one son, The Honorary
Hugh Wedgwood (born 1921), later 3rd Baron.
Wedgwood studied at the Burslem School of Art (1920–1922), and the Slade School of Art (1922–1925). He exhibited at the New English Art Club, (1927–1930) and Royal Academy (1931–1939).
Upon the death of his father in 1943, he became the 2nd Baron Wedgwood.