Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus

x CLAN FERGUSSON
The illustrations accompanying the memoirs by Mr. R N.
R Ferguson are all from portraits in his possession. The
full-page portrait of Professor Adam Ferguson is from Rae-
burn's picture, and that on page 143 from one by Sir Joshua
Reynolds. That of Mrs. Ferguson (p. 142) is from her pic-
ture by David Martin; those of Sir Adam, and Admiral
John M. Ferguson (pp. 173 and 181) are from their pictures
by John Ballantyne. The authors of the portraits repro-
duced on pages 161 and 167 are unknown. On page 177 is
reproduced from the original, which was the property of Mr.
R. N. R. Ferguson when the illustration was executed, but
has since been acquired by the Scottish National Gallery,
Sir David Wilkie's well-known group of the Abbotsford
family. It was painted in 1817, and exhibited at the Royal
Academy in 1818, and in the collection of National Histori-
cal Scottish Portraits in 1884, and is described by Lockhart
in his Life of Scott.
In the centre Sir Walter is seated on a bank ; on his left
are Captain (afterwards Sir) Adam Ferguson, Mr. Walter
Scott (afterwards Sir Waiter, Lieut. -Colonel of the 15th
Hussars), and Mr. Charles Scott, and behind them is Tom
Purdie. On the right, Lady Scott dressed as a cottage
matron, with Miss Anne Scott, and in front of the picture is
Miss Sophia, afterwards Mrs. Lockhart. Close by her is
Sir Walter's famous deerhound, Maida.
The representation of Lord Pitfour on page 249 is from
a picture at Kinmundy, the author of which is unknown;
that of his son, James Ferguson, M.P.. from an engraving
of Beechey's picture at Pitfour, and that of Colonel Patrick
Ferguson from an engraving also at Pitfour. Another
illustration of Colonel Patrick Ferguson, as an older man,
was published in Two Scottish Soldiers (1888), reproduced
from a waxen bust at Kinmundy. A story is told, that when
Beechey was painting old Pitfour, he was greatly disappointed