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.  
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 