Thomas Byerley partner in the Wedgwood

Wedgwood

Wedgwood, strictly speaking Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, is a pottery firm owned by KPS Capital Partners, a private equity company based in New York City, USA. Wedgwood was founded on May 1, 1759 by Josiah Wedgwood and in 1987 merged with Waterford Crystal to create Waterford Wedgwood, an...

 pottery firm.

He was the son of John Byerley and Margaret Wedgwood, the daughter of Thomas Wedgwood III

Thomas Wedgwood III

Thomas Wedgwood III was an English potter and the father of Josiah Wedgwood.Thomas was born in Burslem, the elder son and heir of Thomas Wedgwood II and Mary Leigh...

 and sister of Josiah Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood was an English potter, founder of the Wedgwood company, credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of pottery. A prominent abolitionist, Wedgwood is remembered for his "Am I Not A Man And A Brother?" anti-slavery medallion. He was a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family...

. In 1768 he emigrated to America but returned in 1775 and became a clerk at Etruria, where he became a salesman. After Josiah Wedgwood I's death and after Josiah Wedgwood II

Josiah Wedgwood II

Josiah Wedgwood II , the son of the English potter Josiah Wedgwood, continued his father's firm and was Member of Parliament for Stoke-upon-Trent from 1832 to 1835...

 moved away he was left in charge of Etruria Works

Etruria Works

The Etruria Works was a ceramics factory opened by Josiah Wedgwood in 1769 in a district of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, which he named Etruria...

.

He married Frances Bruckfield January 12, 1782. They had 11 children:

• Josiah Byerley
• Thomas Byerley
• Frances Byerley
• Maria Byerley
• Sarah Byerley
• John Byerley
• Ann Byerley
• Jane Margaret Byerley
• Katherine Byerley (1797–1862), who married Dr. Anthony Todd Thomson
  Anthony Todd Thomson
  Anthony Todd Thomson was a Scottish doctor and pioneer of dermatology.-Life:His father Alexander Thomson was Postmaster-General, a member of the council of the Province of Georgia, and custom-collector for Savannah, Georgia...
  
  
• Francis Bruckfield Byerley
• Charlotte Octavia Byerley

External links

• http://www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk/biogresults.asp?BiographySelection=5