FERGUSON, Sir Adam (eld. son of Adam Ferguson 1723–1816, professor of moral philosophy in Univ. of Edin.) b. Edinburgh 1771; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; captain 101 foot 1808–16 when placed on h.p.; prisoner of war in France 1812–14; deputy keeper of Regalia of Scotland 1818 to death, the Regalia were discovered 5 Feb. 1818; knighted by George iv at Edin. 29 Aug. 1822. d. Edinburgh 1 Jany. 1855 in 84 year. Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott (1837) iv, 223, 249, 272.
FERGUSON, George. b. 1786; entered navy July 1798; captain 6 June 1814; admiral on half pay 11 Feb. 1861; M.P. for Banff 1832–37. d. 37 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 15 March 1867.
FERGUSON, James. b. Perthshire 31 Aug. 1797; taken to the United States 1800; assistant civil engineer on Erie canal 1817; first assistant of U.S. coast survey 1833–47; assistant astronomer of U.S. naval observatory 1847 to death; discovered three asteroids; contributed to Gould’s Astronomical Journal, Astronomische Nachrichten, Episcopal Church Review and other magazines. d. Washington, D.C. 26 Sep. 1867.
FERGUSON, James Frederic (son of Jacques Frédéric Jaquemain, who assumed name of Ferguson 1793, deputy postmaster of Beaufort in South Carolina). b. Charleston 1807; went to Dublin 1820; indexed the entire body of Exchequer records; clerk and sec. to commission for arranging records of the Irish courts 1850; in charge of the Exchequer records to death; contributed to Gent. Mag., Notes and Queries, Topographer and Genealogist and Transactions of the Kilkenny archæological society; translated Norman French chronicle of conquest of Ireland, edited by M. Michel. d. Dublin 26 Nov. 1855.
FERGUSON, John (son of William Ferguson of Irvine, Ayrshire, shipmaster). b. Irvine 28 Feb. 1787; ed. at Ayr; in a banker’s office; went to America; settled at Irvine 1810; left by his will £80,000 for educational and religious objects in Scotland, and about £375,000 called the Ferguson Bequest Fund interest of which is spent in building churches and schoolhouses, &c. d. 8 Jany. 1856.
FERGUSON, John Creery. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.B. 1827, M.A. 1833; licentiate of K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1827, fellow 1829, hon. fellow 1846; professor of practice of medicine, school of physic, Trin. coll. Dublin; professor of practice of medicine Queen’s college, Belfast to death. d. 14 Howard st. Belfast 24 June 1865.
FERGUSON, Robert (son of Robert Ferguson of Indian civil service). b. India 15 Nov. 1799; studied medicine in London, Heidelberg and Univ. of Edin., M.D. Edin. 1 Aug. 1823; resident medical officer of Marylebone infirmary; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1824, F.R.C.P. 3 July 1837, censor 1844 and 1845, consiliarius 1857–59; phys. to Westminster Lying-in-hospital; professor of midwifery at King’s coll. 1831–39 or 40; physician accoucheur to the Queen 16 July 1840; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 14 March 1857; contributed numerous articles to Quarterly Review; published Essay on diseases of women, Puerperal Fever 1839. d. Ascot cottage, Winkfield near Windsor 25 June 1865. Munk’s Roll of the royal college of physicians (1878) iii, 295.
FERGUSON, Sir Robert Alexander, 2 Baronet. b. Londonderry 1795; succeeded his father 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1817; M.P. for city of Derry 1830 to death; lord lieut. of Londonderry 1840 to death; col. of Derry militia 24 June 1839 to death. d. Dublin 13 March 1860.
FERGUSON, Robert Munro. b. 20 Aug. 1802; ed. at Eton and Univ. of Edin.; ensign 43 foot 24 Feb. 1820; lieut. col. 79 foot 13 March 1835 to 29 Oct. 1841; M.P. for Kirkaldy burghs 1841–62. d. Raith house near Kirkaldy 28 Nov. 1868.
FERGUSON, Sir Samuel (3 son of John Ferguson of Collon house, co. Antrim). b. Belfast 10 March 1810; ed. at Belfast and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1832, hon. LLD. 1864; called to Irish bar 1838; Q.C. 16 June 1859; deputy keeper of public records of Ireland 1867; knighted 17 March 1878; pres. of Royal Irish Academy 1882; contributed from 1833 to Dublin Univ. Mag.; wrote many tales and poems in Blackwood’s Mag.; author of Lays of the Western Gael 1865; Congal, an epic poem in five books 1872; Poems 1880; Ogham inscriptions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland, edited by Lady Ferguson 1887. d. Strand lodge, Howth, co. Dublin 9 Aug. 1886. bur. Donegore, co. Antrim. O’Hagan’s Poetry of Sir S. Ferguson 1887; A. P. Graves’s Has Ireland a national poet?; Blackwood’s Mag. Nov. 1886 pp. 621–41.