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316 THE WEDDERBURN BOOK.
Part in. (Scots' May. 1822, p. 137; Blackwood, p. 132). He was educated at the Edinburgh
Chap. vm. Academy and at Haileybury College, co. Herts, whence he entered, in 1842, the Madras
Civil Service, in which he continued for thirty-six years. He was collector and magistrate
of several of the largest districts in the Presidency, 1860-78, and at the close of his time,
was asked to continue for a year in order to assist in a famine with the experience he had
acquired on two such occasions previously, after which, on his retirement in 1878, his
career was favourably noticed by the Government. In 1879 he, in right of his mother,
succeeded his cousin James Clerk-Maxwell, 1 in the estate of Middlebie, co. Dumfries and
Glenlair, co. Kirkcudbright, under the provisions of a deed of entail, and thus took the
name and arms of Maxwell of Middlebie and Glenlair in addition to his own. 2 He died
at Bath, 12 May 1896, and is buried at Corsock, co. Kirkcudbright. 3
He married at Trinity Chapel (Episcopal), Edinburgh, 14 Sept. 1847, Joanna Keir,
second daur. of James Keir, M.D. (of West Rhynd, Strathearn, and later of Lynedoch
Place, Edinburgh, and West Bhynd Lodge, Musselburgh), and by her (living at Oxford in
1898) had issue four sons and two daughters,
1. James Andrew Oolvile Wedderburn, who succeeded his father. See post, p. 317
2. Harry George Wedderburn, born at Cuddapah 18 Nov. 1850; baptized there
(Madr. Bapt., Ind. Off. xxix., 557) ; educated at Glenalmond and at Balliol College,
Oxford, where he matriculated 21 Oct. 1869, graduated in honours and took the
degrees of B.A. (1874), B.C.L., and M.A. (1879). He was admitted a student of
the Inner Temple, 20 April 1870 ; called to the Bar, Easter Term 1875 ; and soon
after went to India, where he practised at the bar in Madras, and was official
trustee and acting Advocate-General of the High Court there.
He m. at S. George's Cathedral, Madras, 29 Dec. 1881, Jane Trevelyan
Carmichael, youngest daughter of David Fremantle Carmichael, Esq. (member of
Council, Fort S. George), by whom he has issue a son and three daughters, viz.,
Charles Carmichael Wedderburn, born in Madras, 31 Dec. 1882.
Margaret Joanna Wedderburn, born at Ootacamund, 8 July 1884.
Beatrice Aytoun Wedderburn, born at S. Andrew's, Fife, 29 Dec. 1887.
Katharine Anne Wedderburn, born at Madras, 12 Oct. 1889.
3. Francis Edward Keir Wedderburn, born on board the s.s. " Columba," off
Malta, on its voyage home from India, 11 March 1857; baptized at S. Paul's,
Knightsbridge, London ; educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College, Oxford,
where he matriculated 19 Oct. 1878, but, passing into the Civil Service of India,
did not proceed to a degree. Went to India 1880, and entered the Madras Civil
Service ; and was acting assistant-resident at Mysore, and (1891) special assistant to
the Collector of Gangam. Died unm. at Calingapatam, Madras Presidency, India,
2 Feb. 1893 (Times, 7 Feb. 1893).
1 He was retoured his heir of tailzie and provision 15-18 March 1880 (R.H. 60, four retours).
5 This change of name, etc., was registered in the Lyon College at Edinburgh. By a matriculation of arms,
dated 10 Dec. 1879, it is recited that Andrew Wedderburn-Maxwell of Middlebie, co. Dumfries and
Glenlair in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, was fourth but eldest surviving son and heir of the late
James Wedderburn (and Isabella Clerk his wife), who was third son of James Wedderburn of Inveresk,
second surviving son of Sir John Wedderburn of Blackness, Baronet, heir male of Sir John Wedderburn
first Baronet of Blackness, whose Arms are recorded anno 1705 in the Public register of the College ;
and that the said Isabella Clerk was only daughter of James Clerk, second surviving son of Sir
George Clerk of Penicuik, co. Edinburgh, Bart., and Dorothea his wife, dau. and heir of William
Clerk-Maxwell, Advocate, and Agnes his wife, dau, and heir of John Maxwell of Middlebie aforesaid ;
that the said John Maxwell, by deed of entail 9 June 1722 recorded in the register of Tailzies
30 June 1722, conveyed his estate of Middlebie in favour of a series of heirs under condition that
they in all time after their succession be obliged to bear and use the surname, arms, and designation
of Maxwell of Middlebie as their proper arms, surname, and designation ; that John Clerk Maxwell
aforesaid left one son, James Clerk Maxwell, who d. s.p. 5 Nov. 1879, whereupon the succession
opened to the said Andrew Wedderburn-Maxwell, etc., etc." The matriculation then confirms to
Andrew Wedderburn-Maxwell and his descendants the following arms, viz : — Quarterly 1st and 4th
Argent, a saltire sable, in chief a mullet gules, within a bordure Azure for Maxwell, 2nd and 3rd Argent,
a Chevron between three roses Gules barbed Vert for Wedderburn. Above the shield is placed a helmet
of his degree, with a mantling gules doubled Argent and upon wreaths of the proper liveries are set
the two following crests, vizt., dexter a Stag lodged in front of a holly-tree proper (and above, the
motto " Reviresco ") for Maxwell ; and sinister an Eagle's head erased proper (and above, the motto
" N'on Degener ") for Wedderburn. In testimony, etc., George Burnet, Lyon. (Extracted with
some abbreviations from the original at Glenlair).
3 A portrait of him, set. 21, is at Glenlair, where there are also two crayon portraits of himself and his wife
in later years.