List of Famous people with last name Blackness

Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Baronet of Blackness

First Name Sir
Born on August 4, 1704
Died on November 28, 1746 (aged 42)
Born in United Kingdom

Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Baronet of Blackness, was a Perthshire gentleman who joined the 1745 rebellion of Charles Edward Stuart. He was captured at the Battle of Culloden, taken to London, and convicted of treason. He was hanged, his estates were forfeit to the Crown, and his family was attainted. The Blackness in his title is Blackness House in Dundee rather than Blackness in Lothian just west of Edinburgh. His son John Wedderburn of Ballendean fled after his father's death to Jamaica, where he re-established the family's fortunes via slave sugar, and eventually regained his father's title.

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Alexander Wedderburn of Blackness

First Name Alexander
Last Name Blackness
Born on January 17, 1610
Died on January 17, 1676 (aged 66)
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