Edward Wadham

Edward Wadham DL JP (22 May 1828 – 1913) was appointed mineral agent to Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch in 1851 and later, steward of the Manor of Plain Furness.

[5] Aged twenty-three, Edward Wadham arrived in Ulverston by the "New Times" stagecoach on 1 February 1851 as mineral agent to the Duke of Buccleuch.

The move was not popular with the carters of iron ore. A significant conversation occurred on 5 April when he asked Mr Cranke, land agent to the Duke, for an advance on his salary.

Cranke offered him an easy mining job, which he was unable to accept for fear of Mr Lumley, the Duke's chief steward.

They shared a house and rented stables together for some years, and Edward Wadham later married William's sister Mary Elizabeth Ainslie.

By his own account he shot rabbit, pheasant, black game, rooks, seagulls, a finger and thumb from his left hand, a coachman and a passer-by.