. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. uring the time of Wedg-wood and Bentley, into his establishment, and eventually,as I have shown, admitted him into partnership. Of Thomas Byerley I introduce, in the engraving on thefollowing page, a portrait, from a medallion produced as acompanion, I presume, to those of Josiah and Mrs. Wedg-wood, and of Thomas Bentley, of whom I have alreadygiven engravings. It is somewhat curious that both of Jo
. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. uring the time of Wedg-wood and Bentley, into his establishment, and eventually,as I have shown, admitted him into partnership. Of Thomas Byerley I introduce, in the engraving on thefollowing page, a portrait, from a medallion produced as acompanion, I presume, to those of Josiah and Mrs. Wedg-wood, and of Thomas Bentley, of whom I have alreadygiven engravings. It is somewhat curious that both of Josiah Wedgwoodspartners—Thomas Bentley and Thomas Byerley—shouldhave married their wives from Derby, but so it was. Mr. 316 THE WEDGWOODS. Bentley married, as I have shown, Miss Stamford, of thattown, and Mr. Byerley married Frances, third daughter ofMr. John Bruckfield, of Kirk Ireton and Derby, a lady pos-sessed of every domestic virtue, and of the purest and mostrefined tastes. By her, who survived him many years, hehad a family of five sons and eight daughters, more thanone of whom have been distinguished in the literary were as follows:—Josiali (so named after the great. potter), who was a magistrate and merchant at St. Marys,on the Gambia, where he died; Thomas, who, while in theEast India Companys service, was commander of a fort, anddied of fever in India, at the age of twenty-three; John,who died at Malta; Francis Bruckfield, who, at the earlyage of eighteen, died on board ship while returning homefrom Jamaica ; Samuel, now living in Indiana, where he is TREATY OF C0M3IERCE WITH SAXONY. 317 settled and has a family ; Frances, married to Mr. WilliamParkes, of the Marble Yard, Warwick, and afterwards ofLondon (Mrs. Parkes was the authoress of DomesticDuties, and other works), and was the mother of the pre-sent Dr. Parkes, of London, whose writings are so wellknown among the profession, and related also to the presentgifted writer, Bessie Parkes, whose nam
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