Essays Tagged: "Josiah Wedgwood"

Charles Darwin

sticated English family. His maternal grandfather was the successful china and pottery entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood; his paternal grandfather was the well-known 18th-century physician and savant Erasm ...

(4 pages) 127 0 4.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution

Feb. 12, 1809. Darwin'sfather was a successful and wealthy physician; his mother was a daughter of JosiahWedgwood, the famous British potter. She died when Charles was 8 years old, and theboy was rea ...

(3 pages) 131 0 4.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Charles Darwin

What Factors Made Rapid Industrialisation Possible In England (British Isles) Between 1750 - 1850?

of the pottery industry after the canal system was built, and grew quickly to provide the workers. Josiah Wedgwood, a potter, was a shareholder in the Grand Trunk Canal by which he brought clay from ...

(5 pages) 100 2 3.9 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies

The Life Of Charles Darwin

utside of London, and the grandson of the physician Erasmus Darwin, and of the artisan-entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood. Darwin enjoyed a secure position in the upper middle class that provided him with s ...

(10 pages) 123 2 4.8 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Charles Darwin

sticated English family. His maternal grandfather was the successful china and pottery entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood; his paternal grandfather was the well-known 18th-century physician and savant Erasm ...

(5 pages) 26 0 0.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Charles Darwin