Sir John Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British baronet
Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1907
Date of Death: 09-Dec-1989
Profession: mountaineer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Sir John Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet
- Sir John Hamilton Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet TD (16 November 1907 – 9 December 1989) was a British politician and industrialist. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Wedgwood was the son of Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet and his wife Iris Veronica Pawson, daughter of Albert Henry Pawson.
- He was a great-great-great-grandson of the master potter Josiah Wedgwood.
- His younger sister was the historian C.V.
- Wedgwood.
- Sir John was educated at Winchester College, at Trinity College, Cambridge and in Europe, where he learnt several languages. He married Diane Hawkshaw in 1933.
- She was the daughter of Oliver Hawkshaw, the granddaughter of Cecily Mary Wedgwood, and the great-granddaughter of Francis Wedgwood (1800-1888), and Ruth Stewart Hodgson, granddaughter of William Forsyth QC.
- He was the son of Ralph Wedgwood, grandson of Clement Wedgwood, great-grandson of Francis Wedgwood (1800-1888), which meant they were second cousins.
- They had four sons and one daughter.
- He joined the family pottery firm in 1931 and was appointed Deputy Chairman in 1955.
- He worked as a travelling salesman and representative of the firm, a role which took him across the globe. During the Second World War he served as a Military Intelligence Staff Officer in the Arctic and in Italy.
- In 1948 he rejoined the Territorial Army and became the 2nd in command of the North Staffordshire Regiment. In 1982, after the death of his first wife, he remarried Pamela Tudor-Craig, a medieval art historian.
- His uncle Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood had been a Liberal and Labour politician and cabinet minister.
- John Wedgwood stood for the Liberals at the 1945 election at Stone, but was not elected.
- He then deserted the Liberals to become the Conservative Party's candidate for Leek, but was not elected there either.
- He did however serve as magistrate for Stone, Staffordshire. Wedgwood had a love for outdoor pursuits, particularly cave diving and mountain climbing.
- He was a life vice-president of the British Sub Aqua Club.
- He inherited the Wedgwood Baronetcy and title on the death of his father on 5 September 1956.
- On his own death in 1989 the baronetcy passed to his son, the 3rd Baronet Sir Martin Wedgwood (born 1933; died 12 October 2010).
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