584 Wellwood Maxwell

Constituency : Kirkcudbright  1868-74

Wellwood  was  elected  unopposed  to  take  over  from  the  deceased  James  Mackie.

Wellwood  was  educated  at  Edinburgh  Academy  and  Oxford. He  was  a  barrister  and  a  director  of   the  Glasgow  and  South  Western  Railway.

Shortly  after  his  election  Wellwood's  house  was  destroyed  by  fire  after  a  lightning  strike.

He  died  in  1900  aged  82.