Note 7 — PART I. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY—BIRTH AND PARENTAGE.
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Mr. Colin Mackenzie says:—“He was the confidential friend of his widowed sister Mrs. Wedderburn’s children, who were in the habit of referring to him in all their difficulties in perfect confidence that he would help them, and regarded him more as an elder brother than anything else.” This is abundantly confirmed by various entries in the Diary.