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ALEXANDER DUNDAS OGILVY WEDDERBURN. 351
London, S.W., 25 May 1881, Stephen, Biyih Moore, captain in the Royal Scots Part m.
Regiment, second sou of Richard Moore, Esq., of Killashee, co. Kildare, Ireland, Cha P- x -
and by him (sometime resident at Penicuik, co. Midlothian ; at Chilfrome, co.
Dorset ; and now at The Castle, Tiverton, co. Devou) has issue Stephen St. Leger
Moore, b. 1884 : Marion Wedderburn Moore, b. 1882 ; and Eileen Hester Moore,
twin with her brother.
Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn — the present writer — was born at
Cannon Hall, Hampstead (then the residence of his mother's father) 7 August 1854, and
baptized privately at Rosebank, Roslin, by Dr. Forbes, Bishop of Brechin, 27 Sept.
following. Educated at Haileybury College, Herts ( 1 867-73) and after matriculating, 15 Oct.
1873, at Balliol College, Oxford, continued there 1873-77, and graduated B.A., 22 March
1878, having taken (1875) a first class in classical moderations and (1877) a second
class in the final school of Literee Ilumaniores. Admitted a student at the Inner Temple
20 Dec. 1875, and after reading in the chambers of Mr. A. M. Channell (now a judge of
the High Court) was called to the Bar there, 26 Jan. 1880, and joined the South-
Eastern Circuit, and the Herts and Essex Sessions, but has practised chiefly in London.
Appointed one of Her Majesty's Counsel in May 1897, and received from the Crown the
post of Recorder of Gravesend, co. Kent, 30 Nov. in the same year. Residence, 47, Cadogan
Place, S.W., Chambers, Farrar's Building, Temple, E.C. 1
He married at S. Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, South Kensington, 13 April 1887,
Mathilde Segelcke, only child of Henry William Segelcke of Elfindale Lodge, Heme
Hill, S.E., and has issue a son and a daughter.
Alexander Henry Melvill Wedderburn, born 1 July 1892 at 47, Cadogan
Place, S.W., and baptized at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, 7 Aug. 1892.
Margaret Griselda Wedderburn, born at 90, Sloane Street, S.W., 29 April 1888,
and baptized at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, 17 June 1888.
1 I may be allowed to record here the fact that while at Oxford I had the good fortune to make the
acquaintance (March 1874) and gain the friendship of John Ruskin, then professor of Hne art to the
University, and that for many years I have had the honour to assist in the editing of his works
While still at Oxford, I, in conjunction with an Oxford friend, W. G. Collingwood, translated for the
professor the " Economist of Xenophon," published as vol. i. of his Bibliotheca Pastorum in 1876 •
and after leaving the University I collected and edited all his published letters to the press etc '
under the title of " Arrows of the Chace" (2 vols. 1880). To these may be added an account of
the Mosaics in the baptistery of S. Mark's, Venice, under the title of " Sanctus, Sanetus Sanctus"
(appendix to S. Mark's Rest, 1882) ; an edition of all Mr. Ruskin's magazine articles (On the Old
Road, 1885) ; index to the Stones of Venice (1886), to Modern Painters (1880), to the Seven Lamps
(privately printed 1890), and smaller indices to many of his other works at various times.