11 Facts About Cecil Wedgwood

Major Cecil Wedgwood, DSO was a British soldier and partner in the Wedgwood pottery firm.

Cecil Wedgwood was the great-great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood.

Cecil Wedgwood married Lucie Gibson in 1888, and they had two daughters, one of whom married a brother of the Wedgwood pottery designer Daisy Makeig-Jones;.

Cecil Wedgwood was commissioned a lieutenant in the part-time 4th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment in 1883.

Cecil Wedgwood was promoted to captain on 9 May 1887.

Cecil Wedgwood was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in the October 1902 South African Honours list for his services during the war.

Cecil Wedgwood was the first Mayor of the Federated County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910 and 1911.

Cecil Wedgwood was killed at the La Boiselle during the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.

Cecil Wedgwood's body was found and identified by James Leather, a 21-year-old bandsman and stretcher bearer.

Cecil Wedgwood is buried at the Bapaume Post Military Cemetery in Albert, Somme.

Cecil Wedgwood was succeeded as chairman and managing director of Wedgwood by his cousin Francis Hamilton Wedgwood.