Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805
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Loughborough, Alexander Wedderburn, Baron of, 1733-1805
Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, 1st earl of, 1733-1805
Wedderburn, Al. (Alexander), Earl of Rosslyn, 1733-1805
Wedderburn, Alexander, Earl of Rosslyn, 1733-1805
Loughborough, Lord, 1733-1805
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found: His Lord Loughborough's charge to the Grand Jury of Wilts, at the late assizes at Salisbury, August 6, 1791, 1791.
found: Alexander Speirs, Andrew Blackburn, and Andrew Syme, trustees for the creditors of James Dunlop, merchant in Glasgow, appellants. Thomas and Alexander Peters, merchants in Glasgow, respondents, 1767:p. 3 (signed at end: Al. Wedderburn)
found: LC data base, 3/9/90(hdg.: Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, 1st earl of, 1733-1805)
found: DNB(Wedderburn, Alexander, first Baron Loughborough and first Earl of Rosslyn; 1733-1805)
found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, viewed 9 Jun. 2015(Wedderburn, Alexander, first earl of Rosslyn 1733-1805, lord chancellor, born 13 Feb. 1733, probably in Edinburgh; made attorney-general in 1778; in 1780 became chief justice of the court of common pleas and a peer as Baron Loughborough; became lord chancellor in Jan. 1793; he was created earl of Rosslyn on 21 Apr. 1801; died 2 Jan. 1805 at Baylis, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire)
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1990-03-30: new
2025-08-04: revised
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