Background
Iris Wedgwood was the daughter of Albert Henry Pawson (1850–1935) of Farnley, Leeds, a fellow of the Linnean Society of London and the son of William Pawson who had been the Mayor of Leeds in 1841.
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Fenland rivers: Impressions of the Fen counties
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Iris Wedgwood
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I am so glad.. You have everything to make a wife happy for ever and ever—you have everything in you which cries out for lieutenant I would venture to send a message to Iris (may I call her so?) if I dared, so if I may you can invent one for me—you will do it so much better than I shall! Bless you. This is quite illegible, but my hand shakes from excitement.
(He was subsequently created the first Baronet Wedgwood of Etruria in 1942) They had three children: John Hamilton Wedgwood (1907–1989), Ralph Pawson Wedgwood (born and died in 1909), and Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997) who became a noted historian of the English Civil War and early 17th-century Europe.
The Geographical Magazine called Fenland Rivers "A pleasantly rambling description of the fen country".
