Wedgwood had an interest in botany and horticulture, particularly the cultivation of tropical fruit and other exotic plants.
He was a founder of the Royal Horticultural Society having suggested the idea in a letter to William Forsyth, head gardener to King George III, written 29 June 1801 and chairing the first meeting of the society on 7 March 1804.
[2] He lived at Cote House in Abergavenny, Wales, and at Kingscote, Gloucestershire.
[citation needed] He was a partner in the Davison and Co. bank in Pall Mall.
[3] Wedgwood married Louisa Jane Allen (younger sister of his brother Josiah Wedgwood II's wife, Elizabeth "Bessie" Allen) in 1794.