Background
He was the son of Hugh Wedgwood, later 3rd Baron and his wife Jane Weymouth (née Poulton), daughter of W. J. Poulton, of Kenjockety, Molo, Kenya. He was the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood.
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Piers Anthony Weymouth Wedgwood
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He was educated at Marlborough College.
Career
After initially following a military career, he later worked as an international ambassador for the Wedgwood company
Upon the early death of his father, from a heart attack aged 45 in 1970, Wedgwood succeeded to the title of Baron Wedgwood as the fourth Baron, aged only 15. After military training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Scots in 1973 (personal no 496342), was promoted to Lieutenant in 1975 and Captain in 1980, resigning his commission shortly thereafter. They have one daughter, The Honorary
Alexandra Mary Kavanagh Wedgwood, known as Sandra, (born 3 October 1987).
In 1999, the House of Lords Bill proposed to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords. Wedgwood spoke out against the Bill, and when it passed he was not elected as one of the 92 hereditary peers who remained.
Wedgwood therefore left the House of Lords in November 1999. He became a Freeman of the City of London in 2006.
Wedgwood died of cardiac failure, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, West Philadelphia on Wednesday 29th January 2014.
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Membership
Wedgwood was an active member of the House of Lords, with special interest in defence and heritage.
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United Kingdom