1. Hensleigh Wedgwood was a British etymologist, philologist and barrister, author of A Dictionary of English Etymology.
10 Facts About Hensleigh Wedgwood
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Hensleigh Wedgwood was a cousin of Charles Darwin, whom his sister Emma married in 1839.
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Hensleigh Wedgwood was educated at Rugby School, then entered St John's College, Cambridge in 1820 but switched to Christ's College the following year.
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Hensleigh Wedgwood resigned from the magistracy after deciding that one of his duties, the administrations of oaths, was inconsistent with the commandments of the New Testament.
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Hensleigh Wedgwood was a founding member of the Philological Society.
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Hensleigh Wedgwood refused to believe this explanation and considered the photograph to be genuine.
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Hensleigh Wedgwood was a member of the British National Association of Spiritualists and a vice-president of the Society for Psychical Research.
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Hensleigh Wedgwood married Frances Emma Elizabeth "Fanny" Mackintosh in 1832, his first cousin, the daughter of Sir James Mackintosh and his second wife Catherine "Kitty" Allen.
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Hensleigh Wedgwood died on 2 June 1891 at his house at 94 Gower Street, London.
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Hensleigh Wedgwood was buried at the Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Stoke on Trent, now known as Stoke Minster.