Robert Ferguson

(1817-1898)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Ferguson, Robert, 1817?-1898 LBT ID: RoFergu1898 VIAF ID: 26978097 LOC ID: nr98024811	B/BAP: 1817 DIED: 1898-09-01
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English mill-owner, poet, and antiquary; he was mayor of Carlisle (1855, 1858) and MP for Carlisle (1874); he published The Shadow of the Pyramid, a Series of Sonnets (1847) and other works.
REFERENCES TO Robert Ferguson: Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 3