| LC control no. | no 90006337 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805 |
| Variant(s) | 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 |
| Associated country | Great Britain Scotland |
| Associated place | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1733-02-13 |
| Death date | 1805-01-02 |
| Place of birth | Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Stoke Poges (England) |
| Field of activity | Law Justice, Administration of Politics, Practical |
| Profession or occupation | Judges Politicians |
| Found in | His Lord Loughborough's charge to the Grand Jury of Wilts, at the late assizes at Salisbury, August 6, 1791, 1791. 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) LC data base, 3/9/90 (hdg.: Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, 1st earl of, 1733-1805) DNB (Wedderburn, Alexander, first Baron Loughborough and first Earl of Rosslyn; 1733-1805) 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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