Wedgwood - Lunar Society


Josiah Wedgwood was a member of the Lunar Society.

 

The Lunar Society was so called because the members would travel by moonlight to their meetings.

 

The principal Lunar Men in order of age were:

John Whitehurst (1713-1788)

Matthew Boulton (1728-1809)

Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795)

Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)

Joseph Priestly (1733-1804)

William Small (1734-1775)

James Keir (1735-1820)

James Watt (1736-1819)

William Withering (1741-1799)

Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817)

Thomas Day (1748-1789)

Samuel Galton (1753-1832)