Background
He was the son of the newspaper proprietor James Hedderwick and Ellen Ness.
He was the son of the newspaper proprietor James Hedderwick and Ellen Ness.
His first electoral contest was when he unsuccessfully fought South Lanarkshire at the 1892 general election. In his time in Wick Burghs he had a number of fairly close contests with the Liberal Unionists. A petition was lodged relating to the 1900 election, but it was withdrawn.
In the January 1910 general election he stood as the parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Party in Newbury, but was not elected.
26th United Kingdom Parliament.