I.M. Joannis Wedderburne M.D. ex famillia de Blackness oriundi viri artis medicę peritissimi comis et amabilis
omnibus virtute illustris, Margarita Balfour vidua męstissima in testimonium veri erga conjugem affectus
monumentum hoc extruxit. Orbiit 3 Julij 1751 ętatis 72.
To the memory of John Wedderburne, Doctor of
Medicine, descended from the family of Blackness, a most skillful physician, and
a man gentle and loving to all, and adorned with every virtue, Margaret Balfour,
a sorrowing widow, raised this monument as a testimony of true affection towards
her husband. He died 3rd July 1751, aged 72.
Source: The Book of the Howff, ©Libraries, Leisure and Culture
Dundee, Local History Centre & is
reproduced with kind permission.
Burial-place of the Wedderburn family, including the Wedderburns of Croft, of Pearsie, of Easter Powrie, and of
Ballindean. The principal monument is the upright one with the centre shaft, erected in honour of Lady Margaret,
daughter of David, Lord Ogilvie, and sister to David, Earl of Airlie. She was the mother of Sir David
Wedderburn, Bart. On the west side of the pedestal a beautifully executed marble tablet by Schumacher, the tutor
of the Celebrated Nollekens.
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