Henry Allen Wedgwood
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| name = Henry Allen Wedgwood
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1799|04|04|df=y}}
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1885|10|17|1799|04|04|df=y}}
| occupation = Barrister
| spouse = Jessie Wedgwood
| children = 6
| parents = Josiah Wedgwood II
Elizabeth Allen
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| family = Darwin–Wedgwood family
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Henry Allen Wedgwood (4 April 1799 – 17 October 1885) was an English barrister.
Life
Wedgwood was the third child and second son of Josiah Wedgwood II and his wife Elizabeth Allen. He was a grandson of the illustrious potter Josiah Wedgwood and a brother-in-law of the naturalist Charles Darwin.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}
He married Jessie Wedgwood on 14 September 1830 at Abergavenny. Jessie was his double first cousin, the daughter of John Wedgwood and his wife Louisa Jane Allen. Henry and Jessie had six children:
- Louisa Frances Wedgwood Kempson (b.1834)
- Caroline Elizabeth Wedgwood (b.1836)
- John Darwin Wedgwood (b.1840)
- Anne Jane Wedgwood (b.1841)
- Arthur Wedgwood (b.1843)
- Rowland Henry Wedgwood (b.1847).{{cite book|last1=Litchfield|first1=Henrietta Emma Darwin|title=Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896|date=1915|publisher=D. Appleton|pages=Volume 2, xx-xxi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4wXSAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=20 November 2014}}{{Better source needed|date=January 2021}}
He authored the children's book The Bird Talisman: An Eastern Tale. Some editions were illustrated by his cousin twice removed Gwen Raverat.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}
References
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External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060208222801/http://darwin.lib.cam.ac.uk/perl/nav?class=name.
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Category:Darwin–Wedgwood family
Category:People from Maer, Staffordshire
Category:19th-century English lawyers
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