[2] The first person of the name of this clan on record in Scotland is Wautier de Wederburn who rendered homage to Edward I of England in 1296.

[2] By 1400 there were four distinct yet closely related Wedderburn families who could be found in Dundee and Kingennie in Forfar.

[2] His eldest son Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Baronet of Blackness was also a Jacobite and served as a volunteer in Lord Ogilvy’s regiment.

His eldest son, John Wedderburn of Ballindean, was also at the Battle of Culloden but survived and fled to Jamaica.

[2] Several of the family, including his second son, later James Wedderburn-Colville, made their fortunes in the slave-run West Indian sugar plantations, or the London trading house that underpinned the venture.

In 1775, David Wedderburn of Balindean, who was MP for Perth and Postmaster General for Scotland, succeeded to the chiefship of the clan.

By family arrangement, the chiefship of Wedderburn is held by the eldest son of the earl who is himself chief of the Clan Scrymgeour.