Thomas Wedge was an agriculturalist

Farmer

A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, who raises living organisms for food or raw materials, generally including livestock husbandry and growing crops, such as produce and grain...

. He was the son of Francis Wedge (1714-1784) of Fernhill House, near Forton

Forton, Staffordshire

Forton is a small village on the Staffordshire/Shropshire situated east of the market town of Newport, Shropshire.Situated around Forton Hall and the 14th century All Saints church and sited on the Roman road Via Devana and the modern A519 road between Newport and Newcastle-under-Lyme-External links:...

, Staffordshire

Staffordshire

Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...

, a prosperous farmer, and brother of John Wedge

John Wedge

John Wedge was an English agriculturalist.John Wedge was the son of Francis Wedge and Elizabeth Knock of Fernhill House, near Forton, Staffordshire, a prosperous farmer, and brother of Thomas Wedge of Chester and Charles Wedge of Shudy Camps. John Wedge established himself on the Church Farm,...

 and Charles Wedge of Shudy Camps

Charles Wedge of Shudy Camps

Charles Wedge . Farmer and surveyor, was born 1746 the son of Sir Francis Wedge of Aqualate Park at Forton, Staffordshire, and the brother of John Wedge and Thomas Wedge. In 1776 he married Elizabeth Fletcher, at St Mary Woolnoth, London. They had seven surviving children.Charles Wedge practised...

. Thomas Wedge established himself on farms near Sealand, Flintshire where he prospered on the land.

In 1794 he wrote A General View of the Agriculture of the County Palatine of Chester (London, 1794) for the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. Thomas Wedge married Susannah Couchman of Balsall Temple, Warwick

Warwick

Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England. The town lies upon the River Avon, south of Coventry and just west of Leamington Spa and Whitnash with which it is conjoined. As of the 2001 United Kingdom census, it had a population of 23,350...

, the daughter of Henry Couchman

Henry Couchman

Henry Couchman of Balsall Temple, Warwickshire, an 18th century architect and landscape gardener, designed the Old Draper’s Hall, Coventry and helped complete Arbury Hall, Warwickshire, for Sir Roger Newdigate, including designing the magnificent saloon.-Autobiography:Henry Couchman left the...

 the noted architect

Architect

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 and landscape designer

Landscape architecture

Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions...

, but they had no children.

At the end of his life Thomas Wedge paid for and endowed the Thomas Wedge Church of England Primary School in Saughall

Saughall

Saughall is a civil parish and village in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is situated approximately north west of Chester and close to the Welsh border....

, which still operates there.

He died in 1854 aged 94.

Thomas Wedge school was extended in 2005. The school will close July 2009 and by replaced by a brand new purpose built building and renamed.