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Sir John Wedderburn (1729-1803), 6th Bt (but for the attainder) was eldest surviving son of Sir John Wedderburn (1704-1746), 5th Bt, descended from Sir John Wedderburn (1641-1706), 1st Bt of Blackness. John the father was present at the battle of Culloden as a volunteer in Lord Ogilvy's regiment. He was captured and attainted and executed in Nov 1746, when the baronetcy was forfeited. John the son was a cornet in Lord Ogilvy's regiment, and lived for some years after Culloden in Jamaica. In 1761 he became head of the male line of his family. By his two marriages he had a number of children, of whom his eldest surviving son David (1775-1858) was created baronet (with the designation of Balindean) in 1803. He had been MP for the Perth Burghs, and Postmaster General for Scotland. His sons predeceased him, and the baronetcy passed to his half-brother Sir John Wedderburn (1789-1862), 2nd Bt, who was in the service of the Honorable East India Company. He was succeeded by his two sons, David and then William. On the latter's death in 1918 the baronetcy passed to his kinsman John Andrew Wedderburn Ogilvy, who then assumed the name Ogilvy-Wedderburn. |