Adam Ferguson

(1723-1816)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 NRA: Ferguson, Adam (1723-1816) Philosopher DNB: Ferguson, Adam (1723-1816), philosopher and historian LBT ID: AdFergu1816 VIAF ID: 49279367 LOC ID: n79065503	B/BAP: 1723-06-10 DIED: 1816-02-22
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Professor of philosophy at Edinburgh University; author of An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767) and other historical and philosophical works.
REFERENCES TO Adam Ferguson: Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 26 July 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 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: ¶ 2 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1: ¶ n3 “Mr. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron” in The Times (30 January 1830) Found 1: ¶ n3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1786-90 Found 2: ¶ 8 ¶ 11 Chapter VIII 1796-97 Found 1: ¶ 23 Chapter I 1804-05 Found 1: ¶ 11 Chapter III 1817 Found 1: ¶ 4 Chapter IX 1819 Chapter VIII 1822 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter VII 1830-31 Found 1: ¶ 23 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