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INTRODUCTION.
hxi.
Sir Joha Wedderburn, who was thus the second baronet of Baliodean, and Introd.
but for attainder eighth of Blackness, was born in 1789. He
wed°e?burn, Went out to Bombay in 1807, where he remaiueJ for thirty
years, holding various
dAedimi.'
positions of increasing importance in the
civil service, and securing the high regard of botli Kumpeans
and natives. On his return home he resided at Keith House, co. Haddington,
and at Meredith, Tibberton, co. Gloucester, a property which his wife hud
inherited from a maternal uncle of that name. He died at Brighton in 18G2,
and was buried at Tibberton.
He had married in 1822 Henrietta Louisa Milburn (died 1S81), and by
her had issue, besides a son and daughter who died in infaucv. two daughters
who died unmarried, and two daughters, Alicia (Lady Hope) and Louisa (ilrs.
Percival). There were also three sons, John, David, and WiUiain, of whom the
eldest was killed with his wife and child in the Indian mutiny
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18.57, while the two younger have successively inherited
sir William
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Wedderburn. the baronetcy 01 iialindean. 1 have given an account of
their careers and of that of their elder brother, post, pp. 299-
301. Sir William Wedderburn, who is married and has two daughters, is now
in male line the senior representative of old Robert Wedderburn and Janet
Kyd (ante, p. xlvii.), and the sole representative of his grandfather, Sir John of
Balindean.
From the second son, however, of old Sir John Wedderburn of Blackness,
who died in 1746, descended three other branches of the family, all of whom,
curiously enough, have assumed other or additional names. Tho.se are the
Wedderburn-Colviles of Ochiltree, the Wedderburu-Ogilvies of Ruthven, ami the
Wedderburn-Max wells of Middlebie, descended from Andrew, IVter, ;ind James,
the three surviving sons of James Wedderburn, whom I have already named as
being with his father during his imprisonment in Southwark (laol in 174G.
After Sir John's death he went out to Jamaica and practised
Jamps surcrerv, but returned home in 1773, and purchased Jnveresk
or coiviie, Lodge, at Inveresk, co. Alidlotlnan, where he resuled tul his
df/dia^' death in 1807. He married Isabella Blackburn or Colvile,
heiress of Ochiltree and Craigflower, by whom (died 1821) he
left a daughter, Jean, who married Thomas, tifth Earl of Sclknk, and three
sons,
viz.,
1. Andrew Wedderburn or Colvile, long chief partner in the We.st Indian
house carried on by various members of the family. He was
The Wedder- the father of Sir James William Colvile, formerly Chief Justice
of'oc£itree!^ o£ Calcutta and a member of the judicial committee of the privy
council in England, who died without any surviving is.sue in
1880 ; of the late Mr. Eden Colvile, the last of the family to carry ou
business in the city, who died s.p. in 1891, and twelve dnuyhters, of
whom only three—Isabella (Mrs. Marindin), Georgiana Mary (Lady i;lachford),_
and Margaret Agues (Mrs. Kegan Paul)— married. It is to one of tiie sous of
the first of these, Sir Francis Marindin, K.C.M.G., that the estate of Craigtlower
now belongs. He has not, however, been required to change his patronymic.
2. Peter Wedderburn or Ogilvy was born in 1781, and was for some ycirs
in the sea service of the East India Company. lie ^di.tl in
The Wedder- 1873, bavin"- married in 1811 Anna Ogilvy, heiress of liuthv.n.
SfTuPh^i^''^ CO. Forfar, by whom (died 1853) he had is=ue, including: two
sons, one of whom. Colonel Thomas Weddcrburu-O-ilvy ij-mi
1814), late of the second Life-guards, is heir-presumptive to the h.irniKtcy of
Balindean, but has no issue, while the other, John Andrew W e..dcrburn-
Ogilvy (born 1818), has a family of several sons and daughters, lucluding an
eldest son, Charles James, bom in 1862.