. Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus;. Ferguson, , Bobs son, gives the followinggraphic account of his male parent:— In his person my father was not tall, but exceedinglyhandsome.^ In his mind acute, thoughtful and cautious, He journeyed all the way to London to thank Sir J. Macpherson for hiskindness to Bob his son. - This is amply borne out by a beautiful lialf-length portrait of him now inmy possession, taken when he might have been sixty years old or more, andby an equally beautiful miniature in tlie possession of my sister Marion. A FEEGUSSONS m ATHOLE 161
. Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus;. Ferguson, , Bobs son, gives the followinggraphic account of his male parent:— In his person my father was not tall, but exceedinglyhandsome.^ In his mind acute, thoughtful and cautious, He journeyed all the way to London to thank Sir J. Macpherson for hiskindness to Bob his son. - This is amply borne out by a beautiful lialf-length portrait of him now inmy possession, taken when he might have been sixty years old or more, andby an equally beautiful miniature in tlie possession of my sister Marion. A FEEGUSSONS m ATHOLE 161 the stern affection of my grandfather appeared to me to havemade him reserved, grave and very shy. He said little, buthad the power of putting as much pith and satire into thatas I ever knew. I never dreaded anything so much as hismerciless comments on anything I did. I have laughed andcried more from his biting ridicule than from all the buffetingsand jokes of all the rest of the world. He was a capitaladviser, and treated me as a man when I was a child, gave. MR. ROBERT FERGUSON me his ^97os and cons without reserve, and generally told mein a few words that if I did so and so I should go to theDevil—and he left me the full choice of doing so. He neverinfluenced me directly in anything. I was to choose mypath—a great error, for a parent should have given his sonthe benefit of his own worldly experience. I do not know very small but plea^sant little picture of him is in the possession of theMisses Labalmoudiere, the sisters of my fathers first wife, Cecilia—now of61 Montague Square, Hyde Park.—R. N. F. L 162 CLAN FERGUSSON the year of Bobs birth. His own account of his early life isgiven in an undated letter to Lord Cornwallis, then Governor-General of India, written from America some time subsequentto 1801. My father settled in this country (America), and Iwas born and educated in it. It was the scene of my earlypublic seivice, having been employed in various station
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