Alexis Antiques Wedgwood Blog: PIERS, LORD WEDGWOOD HAS DIED IN PHILADELPHIA

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

PIERS, LORD WEDGWOOD HAS DIED IN PHILADELPHIA

I am very sorry to announce that Piers Anthony Weymouth Wedgwood, Lord Wedgwood, has died in Philadelphia from a massive coronary. Piers suffered the ill effects of heart disease for many years. Just this week he was on a heart-transplant list, but was removed Tuesday from that list, doctors speculating he would not survive surgery. Piers is survived by his lovely, devoted wife Jean and daughter Sasha, 26, who was the apple of his eye. May we all stop and think about him as we admire our Wedgwood wares and wish him a peaceful eternity full of love. In the photo below from 1999, Piers had just presented me the prize in a drawing at a fund-raiser for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, here in St. Louis. I think the ladies thought the drawing was rigged!

Piers was 59, born in Kenya and became the 4th Baron of Barlaston at the young age of 15 after the passing of his father, also at a young age and from heart disease.

Funeral / memorial service arrangements are incomplete at this time, but will be posted when learned. Lord Wedgwood's family requests memorial donations be given to the Lord Wedgwood Charity, at www.lwcharity.com.