Baron Wedgwood, of Barlaston in the County of Stafford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1942 for the soldier and politician Josiah Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood

Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, DSO, PC, DL sometimes referred to as Josiah Wedgwood IV was a British Liberal and Labour politician who served in government under Ramsay MacDonald...

. He was the great-great-grandson 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...

, the founder of 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

Pottery

Pottery is the material from which the potteryware is made, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made is also called a pottery . Pottery also refers to the art or craft of the potter or the manufacture of pottery...

 dynasty. the title is held by the first Baron's great-grandson, the fourth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1970.

Ralph Wedgwood, younger brother of the first Baron, was created a Baronet, of Dorking, in 1942.

Barons Wedgwood (1942)

• Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood
  Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood
  Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, DSO, PC, DL sometimes referred to as Josiah Wedgwood IV was a British Liberal and Labour politician who served in government under Ramsay MacDonald...
  
   (1872–1943)
• Francis Charles Bowen Wedgwood, 2nd Baron Wedgwood (1898–1959)
• Hugh Everard Wedgwood, 3rd Baron Wedgwood (1921–1970)
• Piers Anthony Weymouth Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood (b. 1954)

The heir presumptive

Heir Presumptive

An heir presumptive or heiress presumptive is the person provisionally scheduled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir or heiress apparent or of a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question...

 is the present holder's second cousin, Antony John Wedgwood (b. 1944). He is the eldest son of Dr John Wedgwood

John Wedgwood (doctor)

John Wedgwood CBE , was until his death the heir presumptive to the barony Wedgwood, as elder son of the second son of the 1st Baron Wedgwood. He was a noted British physician, whose death was commemorated with a long obituary in The Daily Telegraph...

, son of the Hon Josiah Wedgwood, younger son of the first Baron.