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'''Francis Hamilton Wedgwood''' [[Justice of the Peace|JP]] [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]] (9 October 1867 – 29 October 1930) was a partner in and Managing Director of the [[Wedgwood]] pottery firm.<ref>{{cite news | title=Obituaries - Mr. F. H. Wedgwood | newspaper=The Times | date=1 November 1930 | page=17; col E | issue=45659}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk/learning/discovery_packs/pack/lives-of-the-wedgwoods/chapter/francis-hamilton-wedgwood-frank-1867-1930 |title=Francis Hamilton Wedgwood (Frank) (1867-1930) |department=The fifth generation |website=Wedgwood Museum}}</ref><ref name=Venn>{{acad|id=WGWT886FH|name=Wedgwood, Francis Hamilton}}</ref>
== Biography ==
Wedgwood was the eldest son of [[Clement Wedgwood]] and Emily Catherine Rendel, daughter of the engineer [[James Meadows Rendel (engineer)|James Meadows Rendel]].  He was the great-great-grandson of the potter [[Josiah Wedgwood]]. His younger brothers were [[Sir Ralph Wedgwood]] and [[Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood]]. He was educated at [[Clifton College]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]], [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]].<ref name=Venn/>
He was commissioned a [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in the 4th ([[Militia (Great Britain)|Militia]]) Battalion [[North Staffordshire Regiment]] on 2 July 1894. The battalion was embodied after the outbreak of the [[Second Boer War]] in late 1899, and he left [[Cobh|Queenstown]] for South Africa on the {{SS|Kildonan Castle||6}} with other men of the battalion in March 1900.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The War in South Africa - Embarcation of Troops|date=12 March 1900 |page=7 |issue=36087| }}</ref> He served in [[South Africa]] until the end of the war, returning home with his battalion in June 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The War - Officers returning home|date=22 May 1902 |page=8 |issue=36774| }}</ref> During the First World War he also served as a recruiting officer.
He became managing director of Wedgwood in 1916 when his cousin [[Cecil Wedgwood]] was killed at the [[Battle of the Somme]].  He was also a director of the [[LMS Railway]].  He was [[High Sheriff of Staffordshire]] for 1929–30.
Wedgwood married Katherine Gwendoline Pigott, daughter of the Rev. Edmund Vincent Pigott, of Doddershall Park, on 11 September 1902 in [[Trentham, Staffordshire|Trentham]] and they had three children:
* Frances Dorothea Joy Wedgwood (1903–1996)
* [[Star Wedgwood|Cecily Stella Wedgwood]] (1905–1995), artist for Wedgwood<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk/learning/discovery_packs/pack/working-at-wedgwood/chapter/cecily-stella-wedgwood-1905-95 |title=Cecily Stella Wedgwood (1905-95) |department=Wedgwood people |website=Wedgwood Museum}}</ref>
* Clement Tom Wedgwood (1907–1960)
He died suddenly in 1930 in [[Euston Road|Euston]], [[London]] and was buried at [[Barlaston]]; his nephew [[Josiah Wedgwood V]] became the managing director of Wedgwood.
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