He and his brothers were responsible for the reintroduction of bone china c. 1876 and the employment of the artists Thomas Allen and Emile Lessore.
[citation needed] In 1898, like his great-grandfather Josiah Wedgwood, he suffered the amputation of his right leg.
[citation needed] He married twice, first to Mary Jane Jackson Hawkshaw (c. 1836–1863) on 24 June 1862 at St. Peter Pimlico, Westminster, Middlesex with whom he had a son Cecil Wedgwood (1863–1916); but she died in 1863 due to complications of the birth of Cecil.
Godfrey Wedgwood died at Idlerocks and is buried All Saints Churchyard in Moddershall, Staffordshire.
[citation needed] A distant relative and namesake, Godfrey James 'Birch' Wedgwood (13 July 1937 – 17 February 2023) founded insurance brokerage Wedgwood Insurance[2] in 1978 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.