Robert Ferguson of Raith

(1768-1840)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Fergusson, Robert, 1768-1840 LBT ID: RoFergu1840 VIAF ID: 58930594 LOC ID: nr90016363	B/BAP: 1768-03-20 DIED: 1840-12-03
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Scottish advocate, MP, and mineral collector; there is a notable portrait by Henry Raeburn, “The Archers.” In 1807 he was convicted of criminal conversation with Lady Elgin.
REFERENCES TO Robert Ferguson of Raith: John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 21 October 1820 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 3 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 29 August 1822 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 16 March 1825 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [September 1840] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 2 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1843 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. II: 1822 Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. IV: 1825-26 Found 1: ¶ 1 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter VIII: 1820