Sir Hugo Martin Wedgwood, 3rd Baronet, was a British stockbroker and linguist.
Occupation
linguist
Born
December 27, 1933
Died
October 12, 2010
Overview
Sir Hugo Martin Wedgwood, 3rd Baronet, (27 December 1933 – 12 October 2010) was a British stockbroker and linguist.
Wedgwood was the eldest son of Sir John Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet. He was a great-great-great-great-grandson of the master potter Josiah Wedgwood. Sir Martin was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. Over the course of his life, Wedgwood mastered 20 languages.
He worked in the family pottery firm in the UK and Canada. In 1973 he joined the Stock Exchange, remaining there until retirement.
In 1963 he married the architectural historian Alexandra Gordon Clark (known as Sandra), daughter of the judge and crime novelist, Alfred Gordon Clark. They had one son, Ralph (born 1964) and two daughters, Julia, and Frances, a doctor married to the television producer Gareth Edwards.