The eldest son of the potter
Thomas Wedgwood III (1685–1739) and his wife Mary Stringer, Wedgwood was also the great-uncle of naturalist
Charles Robert Darwin. He married twice, first to Isabell Beech (1722–1750), who had five children, two of whom died in infancy. His surviving children with Isabell included Thomas Wedgwood V (c. 1745–1787), master potter of the Overhouse, from whom descends the famous ceramic designer
Clarice Cliff. After the death of his first wife, he married Jane Richards (1715–1785), with whom he had three children. ==References==