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360:. While employed with the Ordnance Committee, his aptitude for mathematics enabled him to establish a new system for calculating the allowance to be made for ballistic winds in long-range artillery shooting, which had been widely adopted by the end of the war. He was appointed Assistant Director of Experiments at the Ministry of Defence's site at
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A year later he took up the post of
Chairman of the General Council of Solicitors in Scotland. This body had been established a few years before by the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1933 as the first national body for the solicitors' profession, with responsibilities for the education and training of
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Wedderburn joined the firm of
Carment, Wedderburn and Watson. The Wedderburn of the firm's name was Joseph Robert Maclagan Wedderburn (1850–1936), Ernest's paternal uncle, who in 1922 would lead the merger with Guild and Shepherd which would form
400:, in succession to Professor Mounsey. During this time he pioneered the employment of small tutorial-sized classes in his teaching, a practice which continued until instruction in drafting was removed from undergraduate studies to the
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he found a new system for calculating the allowance to be made for ballistic winds in long-range artillery shooting, which had been widely adopted by the end of the war. While a student he worked, in the
University's vacations, with
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Wedderburn remained Deputy Keeper of the Signet throughout his tenure as
Chairman of the General Council, retiring from the position in 1954. He died on 3 June 1958 at his home at 6 Succoth Gardens, in Edinburgh's
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solicitors and for enforcing standards of conduct, and its membership drawn from representatives of local faculties. Admission to practice was still controlled by these local bodies, such as the
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in 1981. He demitted the Chair in 1935, and was succeeded by Harry H. Monteath. In 1938, the
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in 1884, the son of Anne Oglivie and her husband (and cousin), Dr Alexander Stormonth MacLagan Wedderburn of
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1063:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
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857:"Portrait record, Sir Ernest Wedderburn"
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