Early Life
Wedgwood was born Stocksfield, Northumberland, on 20 July 1910. She was the only daughter of Sir Ralph Wedgwood, a railway executive, and his wife Iris Veronica Pawson, a novelist and travel writer. She had a brother, Sir John Wedgwood. She was a great-great-great granddaughter of the potter Josiah Wedgwood.
She was educated at home and then at Norland Place School. She earned a First in Modern History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where A.L. Rowse said she was "my first outstanding pupil".
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