FERGUSON, William. Entered Ceylon civil service 1839; lived in Ceylon, Dec. 1839 to death; author of The Palmyra Palm, Borassus flabelliformis, Colombo 1850; A plan of the summit of Adam’s Peak; Scripture botany of Ceylon and 4 other books. d. Ceylon 31 July 1887.
FERGUSON-DAVIE, Sir Henry Robert, 1 Baronet. b. 2 May 1797; cornet 9 Lancers 18 March 1818; major 34 foot 28 Dec. 1826, lieut. col. 1828–29; captain Grenadier guards 1830, major 1844–47; col. 73 foot 17 Feb. 1865 to death; general 25 June 1866; took additional surname of Davie 9 Feb. 1846; M.P. for Haddington burghs 1846–78; created baronet 9 Jany. 1847. d. Creedy park near Crediton 1 Dec. 1885.
FERGUSSON, Sir James (son of Charles Fergusson). b. 17 March 1787; ensign 18 foot 20 Aug. 1801; lieut. col. 3 foot 16 May 1814 to 1815 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. of 88 foot 12 Aug. 1819, of 52 foot 2 June 1825 to 10 May 1839 when he retired on h.p.; A.D.C. to the Sovereign 1830–41; col. 62 foot 9 March 1850 to 26 March 1850; col. 43 foot 26 March 1850 to death; commanded troops at Malta, May 1852 to July 1855; governor of Gibraltar 26 July 1855 to 1859; general 13 Feb. 1860; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Bath 4 Sep. 1865.
FERGUSSON, James (2 son of Wm. Fergusson, M.D. 1773–1846). b. Ayr 22 Jany. 1808; an indigo manufacturer in India; member of Royal Asiatic Soc. 1840; general manager of Crystal palace, Sydenham, Feb. 1856 to 1858; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; sec. to first comr. of public works 1869; inspector of public buildings 1870–74; awarded by Institute of British Architects royal gold medal for architecture 1871; author of Illustrations of rock cut temples of India 1845; Illustrations of ancient architecture in Hindostan 1847; History of architecture in all countries from the earliest times to the present day 3 vols. 1865–7 and other books. d. 20 Langham place, London 9 Jany. 1886.
FERGUSSON, William. Second lieut. R.M. 10 Sep. 1798, col. 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant of Plymouth division 25 April 1849 to 26 Feb. 1851 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 6 Feb. 1857. d. Princes st. Hanover sq. London 26 Dec. 1861 aged 82.
FERGUSSON, Sir William, 1 Baronet (youngest son of James Fergusson of Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire). b. Preston-pans, East Lothian 20 March 1808; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin., L.R.C.S. Edin. 1828, F.R.C.S. 1829; M.R.C.S. London 1840, F.R.C.S. 1844; professor of surgery King’s college, London, May 1840 to April 1870; surgeon at King’s college hospital May 1840 to death; surgeon extraord. to the Queen 18 Dec. 1855, one of serjeant surgeons in ordinary 11 Oct. 1867; F.R.S. Edin. 1839; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; created baronet 10 Jany. 1866; the greatest operative surgeon in Great Britain or probably in Europe; author of A system of practical surgery 1842, 5 ed. 1870; Lectures on the progress of anatomy and surgery during the present century 1867 and other books. d. 16 George st. Hanover sq. London 10 Feb. 1877. bur. West Linton, Peebleshire 16 Feb. H. Smith’s Sir W. Fergusson 1877; Medical Circular i, 395–7 (1852), portrait; I.L.N. xlviii, 176 (1866), portrait; Graphic xv, 172 (1877), portrait.
FERMOR-HESKETH, Sir Thomas George, 5 Baronet. b. Rufford hall near Ormskirk 11 Jany. 1825; succeeded his father 10 Feb. 1843; sheriff of Lancashire 1848; colonel 2 Lancashire militia 1 March 1852 to death; M.P. for Preston 4 April 1862 to death; assumed name of Fermor by royal license 8 Nov. 1867. d. Rufford hall 20 Aug. 1872.
FERMOY, Edmund Burke Roche, 1 Baron (only son of Edward Roche of Trabolgan, co. Cloyne 1771–1855). b. Aug. 1815; M.P. for co. Cork 1837–55, for Marylebone 1859–65; lord lieutenant of Cork 1856; created Baron Fermoy in the county of Cork 10 Sep. 1856. d. Trabolgan 17 Sep. 1874. I.L.N. xxxv, 82 (1859), portrait.
FERNELEY, John (son of Mr. Ferneley of Thrussington, Leics., wheelwright). b. Thrussington 18 May 1782; pupil of Ben Marshal the animal painter; painted some large hunting pictures for Assheton Smith 1806; an animal painter at Melton Mowbray 1814 to death; enjoyed an unlimited patronage for about 50 years; many of his pictures were engraved in the Sporting Magazine and other similar works. d. Thrussington 4 June 1860. Sporting Review xliv, 4–6 (1860).
FERREY, Benjamin. b. Christchurch, Hants. 1 April 1810; ed. at Wimborne gr. sch.; articled to Augustus Pugin 1825; practised as an architect 1832 to death; designed oldest part of present town of Bournemouth 1837; diocesan architect of Bath and Wells 1841 to death; restored Wells cathedral 1842; designed many churches mainly Gothic; F.R.I.B.A. 1839; F.S.A. 1863; author of Recollections of A. N. W. Pugin and of A. Pugin 1861; author with E. W. Brayley of Antiquities of the priory church of Christchurch, Hants. 1834. d. 55 Inverness terrace, Bayswater, London 22 Aug. 1880.