UCL

Wedderburn, Webster

Firm Details

People & Investments (8)

 Senior partner
Andrew Colvile
 Partner
James Wedderburn of Leadenhall Street
 Partner
Sir David Wedderburn 1st Bart.
 Partner
John Wedderburn of Auchterhouse
 Partner
John Wedderburn of Spring Garden and St Marylebone
 Other partner
Alexander Seton
 Name partner
Eden Colvile
 Name partner
David Webster II born Wedderburn

Firm Evolutions (9)

1800 →
Wedderburn, Webster & Co. 35 Leadenhall Street [P.O.]
1811 →
Wedderburn & Co. 35 Leadenhall Street [P.O.]
1820 →
Wedderburn, Colvile & Co. 35 Leadenhall Street [P.O.]
1830 →
Colvile, Wedderburn and Co. 35 Leadenhall Street [London Gazette]
1834 →
35 Leadenhall Street [Pigotts 1832-1834]
1840 →
Andrew Colvile 9 Fenchurch Buildings [P.O.]
1850 →
Andrew Colvile 9 Fenchurch Buildings [P.O.]
1863 →
Eden Colvile 9 Fenchurch Buildings [P.O.]
1879 →
Eden Colvile 9 Fenchurch Buildings [P.O.]

Notes

  1. In 1796, the existing partners John Wedderburn and David Webster added Sir David Wedderburn as a third partner with a 1/6th partnership interest. In 1798 Andrew Colvile was admitted. David Webster died in 1801. In 1810 James Wedderburn and Alexander Seaton [sic] were admitted as partners. Sir David Wedderburn retired in 1815, and John Wedderburn died in 1821, whereupon the second John Wedderburn was taken in as a partner.

  2. Dissolution by mutual consent of partnership as West India merchants under the firm of Colvile Wedderburn & Co., between Andrew Colvile, James Wedderburn, Alex. Seton and John Wedderburn 1 May 1830; continued by Colvile and Seton as Colvile & Co.    

Sources

  1. Wedderburn v Wedderburn, Reports of Cases Argued..in the Several Courts of Law and Equity in England during the year 1839, (1840) Vol. II pp. 52-58.

  2. London Gazette 18687 4/6/1830 p. 1108