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Backbone of the exhibit was the Halsey Collection of more than 100 Wedgwood portrait medallions, which Franklin's contemporaries called "cameos." Among the Franklin friends whose likenesses were thus ceramically preserved were Josiah Wedgwood himself, William Penn, William Pitt, Sir Jeffrey Amherst, Erasmus Darwin (Charles's grandfather), Charles James Fox, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dr. Samuel Johnson, George Washington, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Jean François Marie Arouet (Voltaire) and Catherine II of Russia...
...Hitherto historians have tried to deal with Parliament solely from the institutional side," said Col. Wedgwood. "We have known nothing of the composition of Parliament. We are now agreed that the only way of throwing new light on the history of England and of Democracy is by determining who were the people who represented their country in Parliament...
...this it was pretty hard for the opposition to find anything out of which to make political capital. Laborite Colonel Josiah Wedgwood picked on the Government's policy of nonpayment of War debts...
...Because I am an Englishman," roared Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood...
...people of Great Britain would rather have Franklin Roosevelt as Chancellor of the Exchequer than Neville Chamberlain!" shouted Laborite Colonel Josiah Wedgwood. "Every year Mr. Chamberlain gets up and says that prices should be restored but no action is taken...