Ernest Wedderburn
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Sir Ernest Wedderburn OBE, DL, LL.D., DSc, FRSE, WS |
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| Deputy Keeper of Her Majesty's Signet | |
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In office 1935–1954 |
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| Chairman of the General Council of Solicitors in Scotland | |
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In office 1936–1949 |
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Ernest Maclagan Wedderburn 3 February 1884 Angus |
| Died | 3 June 1958 (aged 74) Edinburgh |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Mary |
| Relations | Joseph Wedderburn (brother) |
| Residence | Succoth Gardens, Edinburgh |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh (M.A. LL.B.) |
| Profession | Solicitor |
| Awards | OBE |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | Ordnance Committee |
| Rank | Assistant Director of Experiments |
Sir Ernest Maclagan Wedderburn OBE DL LL.D. DSc FRSE WS (1884 – 3 June 1958) was an Edinburgh lawyer, and a significant figure both in the civic life of the city and in the Scottish legal establishment. He held the posts of Professor of Conveyancing in the University of Edinburgh (1922–35), Deputy Keeper of the Signet (1935–54), and Chairman of the General Council of Solicitors (1936–49), the forerunner to the Law Society of Scotland. He was also an enthusiastic amateur scientist, and Treasurer of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1937–47).
Wedderburn was born in Angus in 1884, the son of Alexander Stormonth Maclagan Wedderburn, M.D., of Pearsie. He was one of fourteen children, and the younger brother of Joseph Wedderburn, who would become Professor of Mathematics at Princeton and conceive the Wedderburn–Etherington number and Artin–Wedderburn theorem. He was also distantly related through his father to eighteenth century Lord of Session Peter Wedderburn, Lord Chesterhall, and to the latter's son, Lord Chancellor Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn.
On 5 April 1911, he married Mary, daughter of Rev Thomas Smith Goldie, Minister of Granton. During the Great War, whilst in the employ of the Ordnance Committee, his family's aptitude towards mathematics came to the fore as he found a new system for calculating the allowance to be made for ballistic winds in long-range artillery shooting, which had been widely adopted by the end of the War. He was appointed Assistant Director of Experiments at the Ministry of Defence's site at Shoeburyness, Essex, was mentioned twice in despatches and awarded an OBE. Their son, Ernest Alexander Maclagan Wedderburn, a Major in the Royal Scots, was killed on Christmas Eve 1944, and is buried in the Ancona War Cemetery, Italy.
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