Friday 1 March 2013

69 Sir Robert Ferguson


Constituency : Londonderry City  1830, 1831-60

Sir  Robert  was  a  Protestant  baronet  educated  at  Cambridge.He  was  first  elected in  1830  but  unseated  on  a  technicality. He  then took  the  seat  in  the  by-election  and  thereafter  sat  for  nearly  30  years.

He  died  in  1860  aged  63  , his  seat  falling  to  the  Conservatives  at  the  by-election.

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