. Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus;. ed with the highest character. He was oneof the Senators of the College of Justice and Lords Commis-sioners of Justiciary in Scotland. He was married to AnneMurray, daughter of Alexander Murray, Lord Elibank, and hadthree sons, James, Peter, and George, and three daughters. [Lord Pitfour was born in 1700, became Dean of Facultyin 1760, was raised to the Bench in 1764, and died on 25thJune 1777. His wife died on 2nd January 1793. He wascounsel for the Jacobites at Carlisle in 1746, where he and FEEGUSONS IN ABERDEENSHIEE 249 Loc
. Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus;. ed with the highest character. He was oneof the Senators of the College of Justice and Lords Commis-sioners of Justiciary in Scotland. He was married to AnneMurray, daughter of Alexander Murray, Lord Elibank, and hadthree sons, James, Peter, and George, and three daughters. [Lord Pitfour was born in 1700, became Dean of Facultyin 1760, was raised to the Bench in 1764, and died on 25thJune 1777. His wife died on 2nd January 1793. He wascounsel for the Jacobites at Carlisle in 1746, where he and FEEGUSONS IN ABERDEENSHIEE 249 Lockhart found the English juries ready to hang any manwho wore the tartan. It is said that the advocates resortedto a novel device, had their servant dressed in Highlandgarb, managed to slip him in with the next batch of prisoners,and then, by putting each other into the box, proved conclu-sively that he had been with them throughout the rising andcould not possibly have been out. The incident is said tohave had a most salutary eftect in the trials which JAMES FERGUSON, LORD PITFOUR Lord Pitfour combined sound legal ability and high characterwith much dry humour. Ramsay records that before hereceived his gown all men wondered that he had not beenmade a judge, for in his hands it was said mens lives andproperties would be safe. Two characteristic observations of his upon a bad decisionand a doubtful doctrine have been recorded. This case/ 250 CLAN FERGUSSON runs a note by hira, * was not fully pleaded at first, and somejudges are like the old Bishop, who having begun to eatthe asparagus at the wrong end, did not choose to alter.* Servate terviinos quos patres vestri posiiere is Lord Pit-fours answer to doubts suggested on the point. LordHailes, after reporting Pitfours statement as to a certaincase, Erskine had a feeble antagonist in myself and yet wasunsuccessful, adds, This affected modesty is disgusting, forevery one knows that Lord Pitfour is a great lawyer, and tha
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