| 词条 | John Wedgwood (horticulturist) |
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LifeWedgwood was educated at Warrington Academy and the University of Edinburgh. Wedgwood had an interest in botany and horticulture, particularly the cultivation of tropical fruit and other exotic plants. He was a founder of the Royal Horticultural Society having suggested the idea in a letter to William Forsyth, head gardener to King George III, written 29 June 1801 and chairing the first meeting of the society on 7 March 1804.[2] He lived in Abergavenny, Wales, and at Kingscote, Gloucestershire. He was a partner in the Davison and Co. bank in Pall Mall. The Bank failed in 1816, after which time he retired.[3] Wedgwood married Louisa Jane Allen (younger sister of his brother Josiah Wedgwood II's wife, Elizabeth "Bessie" Allen) in 1794. He died in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, in 1844, having had six children, one of whom died young:
References1. ^http://www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk/learning/discovery_packs/pack/lives-of-the-wedgwoods/chapter/john-wedgwood-1766-1844 {{DEFAULTSORT:Wedgwood, John}}2. ^{{cite journal|last1=Janick |first1=Jules |title=The Founding and Founders of the Royal Horticultural Society |journal=Chronica Horticulturae |date=2008|volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=17–19 |url=https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/pdfs/ch4801p17.pdf|accessdate=25 August 2014}} 3. ^Henrietta Litchfield, A Century of Family Letters 4. ^{{cite book |last1=Bromley |first1=Janet |last2=Bromley |first2=David |title=Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2: A Register of Memorials to Soldiers who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo |date=2015 |publisher=Pen and Sword |isbn=9781473857698 |page=405 |quote=Ensign 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards...Ensign 11 Jan. 1814...Present at Waterloo}} 5. ^{{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}} 6. ^{{acad|id=WGWT823R|name=Robert Wedgwood}} 7. ^{{acad|id=WGWT824JA|name=John Allen Wedgwood}} 8 : 1766 births|1844 deaths|People from Abergavenny|Darwin–Wedgwood family|Alumni of the University of Edinburgh|Royal Horticultural Society|People from Cotswold District|Wedgwood pottery |
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