Education
Wedgwood was educated at Warrington Academy and Edinburgh University.
Wedgwood was educated at Warrington Academy and Edinburgh University.
Wedgwood had an interest in botany and horticulture, particularly the cultivation of tropical fruit and other exotic plants. He lived in Abergavenny, Wales, and at Kingscote, Gloucestershire. He was a partner in the Davison and Company bank in Pall Mall.
The Bank failed in 1816, after which time he retired.
He died in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, in 1844, having had six children, one of whom died young:
Colonel Thomas Josiah Wedgwood (1797–1860), married Anne, daughter of Admiral Sir Charles Tyler but they had no children.
Fought at the Battle of Waterloo. Charles Wedgwood (1800-c1823)
They had six children.
The Review Robert Wedgwood, (1806–1881) Rector of Dumbleton, Gloucestershire.
The Review John Allen Wedgwood (1796–1862) Rector of Maer, Staffordshire. Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood (1795–1857).