For 10 points, name this British pottery pioneer.
Many of this man's early breakthroughs came alongside partner Thomas Whielden after a bout of smallpox ended his apprenticeship with his brother.  This entrepreneur set up a model factory by the Grand Trunk canal with an early steam engine called Eturia at the suggestion of Erasmus Darwin.  He was appointed a fellow at the Royal Society for inventing a device capable of measuring extremely high temperatures called the pyrometer.  This employer of John (*) Flaxman opened a first-of-its-kind showroom in London in 1768.  Liverpool merchant Thomas Bentley inspired this man to make a medallion with the caption, "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?"  A popular series this man made for Charlotte, wife of George III, was quickly turned into the mass-marketed "Queen's Ware".  For 10 points, name this British pottery pioneer.
Many of this man's early breakthroughs came alongside partner Thomas Whielden after a bout of smallpox ended his apprenticeship with his brother.  
Josiah Wedgwood 