Josiah Clement Wedgwood

“ Wrottesley collected and edited ‘The Military Opinions of Gen. Sir J. F. Burgoyne’ in 1859; and published ‘Life and Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir J. F. Burgoyne’ (2 vols.) in 1873. But his principal literary interest lay in genealogy. In 1879 he founded with Robert William Eyton [q. v.] the William Salt Society, of which he was honorary secretary from 1879 till his death. His abundant genealogical labour is embodied in the thirty-four volumes of the ‘Staffordshire Collections’ of the society. ”

“ Helena. He was secretary of the defence committee of the war office, 1856–60; of the committee on the influence of rifled artillery on works of defence, 1859; and of the committee on the storage of powder in magazines, 1865. ”