1. Sir William Wedderburn, 4th Baronet, JP DL was a British civil servant and politician who was a Liberal Party member of Parliament.
17 Facts About William Wedderburn
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William Wedderburn was the president of Congress in 1889 and 1910, for the Allahabad session.
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William Wedderburn was born in Edinburgh, the fourth and youngest son of Sir John Wedderburn, 2nd Baronet and Henrietta Louise Milburn.
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William Wedderburn was educated at Hofwyl Workshop, then Loretto School and finally at Edinburgh University.
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William Wedderburn joined the Indian Civil Service as his father and an older brother had done.
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William Wedderburn 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, Bombay.
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William Wedderburn retired when acting Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay in 1887.
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William Wedderburn supported reforms suggested by Lord Ripon to develop local self-government and equality to Indian judges.
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William Wedderburn was seen as supporting the aspirations of Indians and was denied a judge position in the Bombay high court.
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William Wedderburn worked along with influential Congress leaders in Bombay and in 1890 he chaired the British committee of the Indian National Congress, helped publish the journal India and attempted to support the movement through parliamentary action in Britain.
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William Wedderburn was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate in North Ayrshire in 1892 and served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Banffshire from 1893 to 1900.
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William Wedderburn was a member of the Royal Commission on Indian Expenditure in 1895 and chairman of Indian Parliamentary Committee.
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William Wedderburn 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.
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William Wedderburn wrote a biographical memoir of A O Hume who died in 1912.
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William Wedderburn succeeded his brother, Sir David, to the baronetcy on 18 September 1882.
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William Wedderburn married Mary Blanche Hoskyns, daughter of Henry William Hoskyns, on 12 September 1878.
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William Wedderburn died at his home in Meredith, Gloucestershire on 25 January 1918.