UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 13 February 1733

Died: 2 January 1805

1st Baron Loughborough - 17 June 1780

1st Earl of Rosslyn - 21 April 1801

Member of Privy Council - 9 June 1780

son of Peter Wedderburn

husband of Betty Anne Dawson

husband of Charlotte Courteney

Edinburgh University (- 1747)

Inner Temple (May 1753 -)

Solicitor General	January 1771	June 1778
Attorney General	16 June 1778	June 1780
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas	June 1780	June 1793
First Commissioner of the Great Seal	April 1783	December 1783
Lord Chancellor	June 1793	April 1801

20 April 1761	Stirling Burghs	2	50.00
28 December 1761	Ayr Burghs	Unopposed
16 January 1770	Bishop's Castle	Unopposed
1771 Resignation of Alexander Wedderburn on appointment to office.
1 February 1771	Bishop's Castle	Unopposed
8 October 1774	Castle Rising	Unopposed
December 1774 Alexander Wedderburn elects to sit for Okehampton.
15 June 1778	Bishop's Castle	Unopposed
1780 Resignation of Alexander Wedderburn on appointment to office.