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

FERGUSONS IN ABERDEENSHIRE 287
raltar in the month of September following, and on the encounter
with the combined fleets on the 20th of October was stationed as one
of the seconds to Rear- Admiral Sir Alexander Hood, who commanded
the second division of the centre squadron. On that occasion he
was not materially engaged, having had only one of his crew killed.
The Egmont on her return to England was ordered to be re-equipped
for the West Indian station ; but peace taking place immediately
afterwards, Captain Ferguson resigned his command.
' In the month of January 1784 he was, on the decease of Captain
Broderick Hartwell, appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich
Hospital, a station in which he continued till the time of his death,
which happened on 14th February 1793. This gentleman, among
some eccentricities, possessed also many excellent qualities, and the
shades of the former were not in any degree capable of obscuring
the brilliancy of the latter. The latter years of his life he unfor-
tunately passed almost in a state of childhood, in consequence of a
paralytic stroke which befel him about the year 1786, and, increas-
ing in its effects, reduced him ere long to the pitiable situation in
which we have just represented him.']
IV. John [1725-1751] died a Lieutenant in the army. He
was not married. (He was a lieutenant in Brigadier Halket's
Regiment in the Dutch service.)
IV. Anthony [born 1730] was a merchant in Edinburgh.
He had one son,
V. Hugh, who was an eminent physician in Dublin.
[IV. Janet, their sister, married Mr. Robert Lock, and was
the mother of Admiral Walter Lock, and grandmother of
Colonel Andrew Lock, 50th, and Colonel Henry Lock, 108th
Regiments.]