![]() ![]() ![]() She earned a First in Classics and Modern History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where A. ![]() She was educated at home, and then at Norland Place School. Her uncle was the politician Josiah Wedgwood, later 1st Baron Wedgwood. Veronica Wedgwood was a great-great-great-granddaughter of the potter and abolitionist Josiah Wedgwood. Her brother was the politician and industrialist Sir John Wedgwood. She was the only daughter of Sir Ralph Wedgwood, Bt, a railway executive, and his wife Iris Wedgwood ( née Pawson), a novelist and travel writer. Wedgwood was born in Stocksfield, Northumberland, on 20 July 1910. Specializing in the history of 17th-century England and continental Europe, her biographies and narrative histories are said to have provided a clear, entertaining middle ground between popular and scholarly works. Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, OM, DBE, FBA, FRHistS (20 July 1910 – 9 March 1997) was an English historian who published under the name C. ![]()
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