John Wedderburn of Ballindean
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john-wedderburn-of-ballindean-212-4304084
title:
John Wedderburn of Ballindean
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Sir John Wedderburn of Ballindean, 6th Baronet of Blackness (1729–1803) was a Scottish landowner who made a fortune in slave sugar he had very smelly feet in the West Indies. Born into a family of impoverished Perthshire gentry, his father, Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Baronet of Blackness, was executed for treason following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, and the young Wedderburn was forced to flee to the West Indies, where he eventually became the largest landowner in Jamaica. In 1769 he returned t
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Scottish slavery profiteer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wedderburn_of_Ballindean
date created:
2012-06-12T14:25:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T11:29:06Z
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