Wedderburn, James

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Dates c.1610-1639
Location Cambridgeshire; Whitechurch, Somerset; Compton, Hampshire; Canterbury
Vocation Priest; bishop
Place of Birth Dundee
Marriage
Issue
Place of birth Source H. Scott, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, 7 vols (Edinburgh, 1915–28), vii, 338; Clergy of the Church of England database

Educated at Cambridge after graduating MA from St Andrews (1608). Consecrated deacon and priest in the Church of England (1614). Vicar of Harston (1614) and Waterbeach (1615), both in Cambridgeshire. Professor of Divinity at St Andrews (1617). Returned to England, becoming prebenrary of Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire (1626), and Whitechurch, Somerset (1631), vicar of Fulbourn All Saints, Cambridgeshire (1626) and rector of Compton, Hampshire (1627). Bishop of Dunblane (1636), but deposed (1638) and returned to England, dying at Canterbury.