The moshav was founded on 6 December 1949 by demobilised Palmach soldiers and repatriants from Romainia, and was initially named Nahal Reuven, but was later renamed in honour of Josiah Wedgwood.
Apart from the French author Émile Zola, Czech president Tomas Masaryk, and South African prime minister Jan Smuts, many of the streets are named for Britons: Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George, British Labour Party MP Josiah Wedgwood, Colonel John Henry Patterson, commander of the Jewish Legion in World War I and the pro-Zionist British general Wyndham Deedes.
Josiah Wedgwood V (1899–1968), grandson of Clement Wedgwood and son of Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, was managing director of the firm from 1930 until 1968 and credited with turning the company's fortunes around.
Baron | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Wedgwood | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | baron | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Sacha Baron Cohen | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Joey Baron | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | Josiah Wedgwood | John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon | Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux | Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset | Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester | Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester | Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley | Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig | Josiah | George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle | Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg |
In a letter of June 24, 1786, Josiah Wedgwood explains that he had seen Montfaucon's engravings of the Portland Vase.
The Chellis Wedgwood Collection, the largest and most comprehensive special collection in the world related to Josiah Wedgwood and his manufactures, along with the Beeson rare book holdings, make this the U.S. center for the study of Wedgwood.
A founding member of the Lunar Society, it was here that he received many famous 18th-century personalities, including Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton, Benjamin Franklin and James Watt.
Josiah Wedgwood, the famous English porcelain manufacturer, is known to have copied extracts of d'Entrecolles' work in his Commonplace Book.
Commemorating the landing of the First Fleet in Botany Bay, the Sydney Cove medallion was made by Josiah Wedgwood after he was given a sample of clay from Sydney Cove by Sir Joseph Banks, who had received the sample from Governor Arthur Phillip.
Their house became a haven for visitors, mostly writers such as Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, but also the military leader the Duke of Wellington and the industrialist Josiah Wedgwood; aristocratic novelist Caroline Lamb, who was born a Ponsonby, came to visit too.
After 1785 she was one of a circle of women, along with Emma Crewe and Elizabeth Templetown (1746/7-1823), whose designs for Josiah Wedgwood were made into bas-reliefs on jasper ornaments.
Lustreware became popular in Staffordshire during the 19th century, where it was also used by Josiah Wedgwood, who introduced pink and white lustreware simulating mother o' pearl effects in dishes and bowls cast in the shapes of shells, and silver lustre, introduced at Wedgwood in 1805.
Erasmus Darwin had recommended the area to Josiah Wedgwood I for its beauty and soothing waters, and members of the families vacationed and settled there.
In a footnote, Turner was the man who introduced Josiah Wedgwood to Thomas Bentley in Liverpool, a friendship which led to the formation of the company that produced the famous pottery.
Stavanger Fajansefabrikk aimed from the start for a clay mixture and manufacturing process which was to be marketed as Stavangerflint, based on a recipe developed by Josiah Wedgwood in England around 1750.