James Wedderburn (other)
James Wedderburn may refer to: *James Wedderburn (poet) (c. 1495–1553), Scottish poet *James Wedderburn (bishop) (1585–1639), Scottish prelate * James Wedderburn-Colville (1739–1807) West Indies plantation and slave owner, and father of ** James Wedderburn (judge) (1782–1822), Solicitor General for Scotland *Jim Wedderburn James Wedderburn (born 23 June 1938) was a Barbadian athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. He competed for the British West Indies in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the bronze ...

James Wedderburn (poet)
James Wedderburn (c. 1495 – 1553) was a Scottish poet, the eldest son of James Wedderburn, merchant of Dundee (described in documents as "at the West Kirk Style" to distinguish him from others of the name), and of Janet Barry, sister of John Barry, vicar of Dundee. He was born in Dundee about 1495, and matriculated at St Andrews University in 1514. He was enrolled as a burgess of Dundee in 1517, and was intended to take up his father's occupation as a merchant. While at St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews, he had come under the influence of Gavin Logie, one of the leading reformers, and he afterwards took an active part against Romanism. After leaving the university he was sent to Dieppe and Rouen, where it is probable that a branch of the Wedderburn family was settled in commerce. Returning to Dundee, he wrote two plays—a tragedy on the beheading of John the Baptist, and a comedy called '' Dionysius the Tyrant''—in which he satirised the abuses in the Roman church. These ...
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James Wedderburn (bishop)
James Wedderburn (1585 – 23 September 1639), bishop of Dunblane, was the second son of John Wedderburn, a mariner and shipowner from Dundee, and Margaret Lindsay. James Wedderburn (1495?–1553), a poet and playwright and early Scottish proponent of Protestantism, was his grandfather. He was born at Dundee in 1585, and began his university life at St. Andrews, matriculating in 1604, and graduating in 1608 with a Master of Arts; he moved thence to one of the English universities, probably the University of Cambridge. He was at one time tutor to the children of Isaac Casaubon, and among the Burney manuscripts in the British Museum there are several letters from him to Casaubon and to his son Meric, the latter having been Wedderburn's special pupil. Wedderburn took orders in the Anglican Church, was minister at Harstone in 1615, and was closely associated with William Laud in the preparation of the liturgy for the Scottish church. He was professor of divinity in St Mary's Colleg ...
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James Wedderburn-Colville
James Wedderburn-Colville (1739-1807) was born James Wedderburn, the second son Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Baronet of Blackness an impoverished Perthshire gentleman who was executed following the Jacobite rising of 1745. Following his father's death, James travelled to Jamaica where, like his brother John Wedderburn, he made a fortune in the sugar trade. In 1773 he returned to Scotland where he married the heiress Isabella Blackburn in 1774 and purchased a country seat at Inveresk Lodge; raising a family of six children. In his later years Wedderburn lived the life of a country gentleman (adding the extra name Colvile for reasons of inheritance) until his death in 1807. Biography Early life James Wedderburn was born on 28 August 1739 in Perthshire, Scotland, the second surviving son of Jean Fullerton and Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Baronet of Blackness, a Colonel in the Jacobite rising of 1745 who was captured, taken to London and executed for treason. Following this catastrophe ...
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