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See also:ROSSLYN, See also:ALEXANDER See also:WEDDERBURN, 1ST See also:EARL OP (1733-1805) , See also:Lord See also:Chancellor of See also:Great See also:Britain, was the eldest son of See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Wedderburn (a lord of session as Lord Chesterhall), and was See also:born in See also:East See also:Lothian on the 13th of See also:February 1733. He acquired the rudiments of his See also:education at See also:Dalkeith, and in his fourteenth See also:year matriculated at the university of See also:Edinburgh. It was from the first his See also:desire to practise at the See also:English See also:bar, though in deference to his See also:father's wishes he qualified as an See also:advocate at Edinburgh, in 1754, but entered himself at _the Inner See also:Temple on the 8th of May 1753, so that he might keep the See also:Easter and Trinity terms in that year. His father was called to the See also:bench in 1755, and for the next three years Wedderburn See also:stuck to his practice in Edinburgh, during which See also:period he employed his oratorical See also:powers in the See also:General See also:Assembly of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:Scotland, and passed his evenings in the social and argumentative clubs which abound in Edinburgh. In 1755 the precursor of the later Edinburgh See also:Review was started, now chiefly remembered because in its pages See also:Adam See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith criticized the See also:dictionary of Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, and because the contents of its two See also:numbers were edited by Wedderburn. The See also:dean of See also:faculty at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, See also:Lockhart, afterwards Lord See also:Covington, a lawyer notorious for his harsh demeanour, in the autumn of 1757 assailed Wedderburn with more than See also:ordinary insolence. His victim retorted with extraordinary powers of invective, and on being rebuked by the bench declined to retract or apologize, but placed his See also:gown upon the table, and with a See also:low See also:bow See also:left the See also:court for ever. He was called to the English bar at the Inner Temple in 1757. To shake off his native See also:accent and to acquire the See also:graces of oratorical See also:action, he engaged the services of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Sheridan and See also:Charles See also:Macklin. To secure business and to conduct his cases with adequate knowledge, he studied the forms of English See also:law, he solicited See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Strahan, the printer, " to get him employed in See also:city causes," and he entered into social intercourse (as is noted in Alexander See also:Carlyle's autobiography) with busy See also:London solicitors. His See also:local connexions and the incidents of his previous career introduced him to the See also:notice of his countrymen Lords See also:Bute and See also:Mansfield. When Lord Bute was See also:prime See also:minister this legal See also:satellite used, says Dr Johnson, to go on errands for him, and it is to Wedderburn's See also:credit that he first suggested to the premier the propriety of granting Johnson a See also:pension. Through the favour of Lord Bute, he was returned to See also:parliament for the See also:Ayr burghs in 1761. In 1763 he became See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's counsel and bencher of See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, and for a See also:short time went the See also:northern circuits, but was more successful in obtaining business in the Court of See also:Chancery. He obtained a considerable addition to his resources (Carlyle puts the amount at £10,000) on his See also:marriage in 1767 to See also:Betty See also:Anne, See also:sole See also:child and heiress of See also:John See also:Dawson of Marly in See also:Yorkshire. When See also:George See also:Grenville, whose principles leaned to Toryism, quarrelled with the court, Wedderburn affected to regard him as his See also:leader in politics. At the See also:dissolution in the See also:spring of [768 he was returned by See also:Sir See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence Dundas for See also:Richmond as a Tory, but in the questions that arose over John Wilkes (q.v.) he took the popular See also:side of " Wilkes and See also:liberty," and resigned his seat in May 1769. In the See also:opinion of the See also:people he was now regarded as the embodiment of all legal virtue; his See also:health was toasted at the dinners of the Whigs amid rounds of See also:applause, and, in recompense for the loss of his seat in parliament, he was returned by Lord See also:Clive for his See also:pocket-See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:Bishop's See also:Castle, in See also:Shropshire, in See also:January 1770. During the next sessionhe acted vigorously in opposition, but his conduct was always viewed with distrust by his new associates, and his attacks on the See also:ministry of Lord See also:North See also:grew less and less animated in proportion to its apparent fixity of See also:tenure. In January 1771 he was offered and accepted the See also:post of See also:solicitor-general. The high road to the See also:woolsack was now open, but his defection from his former path has stamped his See also:character with general See also:infamy. See also:Junius wrote of him, " As for Mr Wedderburn, there is some-thing about him which even treachery cannot See also:trust," and See also:Colonel See also:Barre attacked him in the See also:House of See also:Commons. The new law officer defended his conduct with the assertion that his See also:alliance in politics had been with Mr George Grenville, and that the connexion had been severed on his See also:death. All through the See also:American See also:War he consistently declaimed against the colonies, and he was See also:bitter in his attack on See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin (q.v.) before the Privy See also:Council. In See also:June 1778 Wedderburn was promoted to the post of See also:attorney-general, and in the same year he refused the dignity of See also:chief See also:baron of the See also:exchequer because the offer was not accompanied by the promise of a See also:peerage. At the dissolution in 1774 he had been returned for See also:Okehampton in See also:Devonshire, and for Castle Rising in See also:Norfolk, and selected the former See also:constituency; on his promotion as leading law officer of the See also:crown he returned to Bishop's Castle. The coveted peerage was not See also:long delayed. In June 178o he was created chief See also:justice of the Court of See also:Common Pleas, with the See also:title of Baron See also:Loughborough.
During the existence of the See also:coalition ministry of North and See also:Fox, the great See also:seal was in See also:commission (See also:April to See also:December 1783), and Lord Loughborough held the leading See also:place among the commissioners. For some time after that ministry's fall he was considered the leader of the Whig party in the House of Lords, and, had the illness of the king brought about the return of the Whigs to See also:power, the great seal would have been placed in his hands. The king's restoration to health secured See also:Pitt's continuance in See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and disappointed the' expectations of the Whigs. In 1792, during the period of the See also:French Revolution, Lord Loughborough seceded from Fox, and on the 28th of January 1793 he received the great seal in the Tory See also:cabinet of Pitt. The resignation of Pitt on the question of See also:Catholic emancipation (1801) put an end to Wedderburn's tenure of the Lord Chancellorship, for, much to his surprise, no place was found for him in Addington's cabinet. His first wife died in 1781 without leaving issue, and he married in the following year See also:Charlotte, youngest daughter of William, See also:Viscount See also:Courtenay; but her only son died in childhood. Lord Lough-borough accordingly obtained in 1795 a re-See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of his See also:barony with See also:remainder to his See also:nephew, Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James St Clair See also:Erskine. His fall in 1801 was softened by the grant of an earldom (he was created earl of Rosslyn 21st April 1801, with remainder to his nephew), and by a pension of L4000 per annum. After this date he rarely appeared in public, but he was a See also:constant figure at all the royal festivities. He attended one of those gatherings at See also:Frogmore, on the 31st of December 1804. On the following See also:day he was seized with an attack of See also:gout in the See also:stomach, and on the 2nd of January 1805 he died at his seat, Baylis, near See also:Salt See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, See also:Windsor. His remains were buried in St See also:Paul's See also:Cathedral on the 11th of January.
At the bar Wedderburn was the most elegant See also:speaker of his time, and, although his knowledge of the principles and precedents of law was deficient, his skill in marshalling facts and his clearness of diction were marvellous; on the bench his judgments were remark-able for their perspicuity, particularly in the See also:appeal cases to the House of Lords. For cool and sustained declamation he stood unrivalled in parliament, and his readiness in debate was universally acknowledged. In social See also:life, in the See also:company of the wits and writers of his day, his faculties seemed to See also:desert him. He was not only dull, but the cause of dulness in others, and even Alexander Carlyle confesses that in conversation his illustrious countryman was " stiff and pompous." In Wedderburn's character ambition banished all rectitude of principle, but the love of See also:money for money's See also:sake was not among his faults.
See See also:Brougham's Statesmen of the Reign of George III.; See also:Foss's See also:Judges; See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell's Lives of Lord Chancellors. (W. P.
End of Article: ROSSLYN, ALEXANDER WEDDERBURN, 1ST EARL OP (1733-1805)
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