William Wedderburn

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Sir William Wedderburn, Bt
Sir Robert Duff
Succeeded byAlexander William Black
Personal details
Born25 March 1838
Civil servant, politician
William Wedderburn

Sir William Wedderburn, 4th Baronet,

DL (25 March 1838 – 25 January 1918) was a British civil servant and politician who was a Liberal Party member of Parliament (MP). Wedderburn was one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress.[1][2] He was also the president of Congress in 1889 and 1910, for the Allahabad session. [3][4]

Early life

William Wedderburn was born in

Wedderburn baronetcy restored to the family, following the attainder after the Jacobite rising of 1745 and the subsequent regain of fortune via the slave sugar plantations of Jamaica
.

William was educated at Hofwyl Workshop, then

1857 uprising and William joined the service in 1860 after ranking third (of 160 applicants) in the entrance exam of 1859.[6][7] His elder brother David
, a widely travelled MP, was the 3rd baronet.

Career

Wedderburn (right) with Hume (left) and Dadabhai Naoroji

He entered the Indian Civil Service in Bombay in 1860, served as District Judge and Judicial Commissioner in Sind; acted as secretary to Bombay Government, Judicial and Political Departments; and from 1885 acted as Judge of the High Court,

British committee of the Indian National Congress, helped publish the journal India and attempted to support the movement through parliamentary action in Britain. He developed a close working relationship with G. K. Gokhale of the Congress.[6] He was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate in North Ayrshire in 1892 and served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Banffshire from 1893 to 1900.[5]

He was a member of the

Royal Commission on Indian Expenditure in 1895 and chairman of Indian Parliamentary Committee. He was considered a great friend of the Indian Progressive Movement and presided at the Indian National Congress, 1889, later chairman, British Committee of the Indian National Congress.[5] In 1910 he returned to India as Congress president and tried to solve the rift between Hindus and Muslims and attempted to reconcile the differences between those who wished to work constitutionally and those who wanted to use more militant actions. He wrote a biographical memoir of A. O. Hume who died in 1912.[6]

Marriage and children

He succeeded his brother, Sir David, to the baronetcy on 18 September 1882. He married Mary Blanche Hoskyns, daughter of Henry William Hoskyns, on 12 September 1878. A daughter, Dorothy, was born in Poona in 1879 and in 1884 they had a second daughter in London, Margaret Griselda.[5] He died at his home in Meredith, Gloucestershire on 25 January 1918.[6] According to the local history society of the nearby village of Tibberton, the farmland of Meredith had been inherited by his mother, and his father commissioned James Medland, a locally prominent architect, to build the house in 1859.[8]

Publications

References

  1. ISBN 9781400870493
    .
  2. ISBN 9781315405483
    .
  3. ^ = https://www.inc.in/en/leadership/past-party-president/sir-william-wedderburn>
  4. ^ "William Wedderburn - Read here complete information about William Wedderburn biography, History, education, Family, fact, other information". Indian National Congress. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  5. ^ a b c d e C. Hayavadana Rao, ed. (1915). The Indian Biographical Dictionary. Pillar & Co. pp. 460–61. Retrieved 14 March 2010.
  6. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/41165. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  7. ^ Ratcliffe, S.K. (1923). Sir William Wedderburn and the Indian reform movement. London: George Allen and Unwin.
  8. ^ "Meredith and the Wedderburn's" (PDF). Tibberton Gloucestershire.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Robert Duff
 Member of Parliament for Banffshire
1893–1900 		Succeeded by
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Baronet

(of Balindean, Perthshire)
1882–1918 		Succeeded by
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