A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ferguson, George
FERGUSON. (Captain, 1814. f-p., 14; h-p., 35.)
George Ferguson entered the Navy, in July, 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Vestal 28, Capt. Chas. White, attached to the fleet in the North Sea, and, after a servitude of five years in the Hussar 38, Capts. Lord Garlics and Wm. Brown, and La Loire 38, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, on the Irish station, was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 30 March, 1805, in the Queen 98, successive flagship in the Mediterranean of Admirals John Knight and Lord Collingwood. He assisted, while in La Loire, at the capture, in 1804, of the French privateers Braave of 16 guns and 110 men, and Blonde of 30 guns and 240 men – the latter after a pursuit of 20 hours and a running fight of 15 minutes. On April, 1806, Mr. Ferguson became Flag-Lieutenant to Lord Collingwood in the Ocean 98, from which ship he removed, in Feb. 1808, to the Endymion 40, Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel. While afterwards serving in the Atlas 98, under the flag of Rear-Admiral John Child Purvis, he obtained a Commander’s commission dated 27 Dec. 1808. Capt. Ferguson – who subsequently commanded the Pylades sloop, in the Mediterranean, from 11 April, 1809, until April, 1812, and captured, 14 Dec. 1809, L’Aigle privateer, of 10 guns, 4 swivels, and 80 men – was promoted to Post-rank 6 June, 1814, and appointed, 14 Dec. following, to the Spey 20, on the Channel station. He has been on half-pay since Sept. 1815.
Capt. Ferguson is Deputy-Lieutenant for Banff and Aberdeenshire, for the former of which places he sat in Parliament in 1833 and 1835. He married, first, 26 May, 1812, Elizabeth Holcombe, only daughter and heiress of John Woodhouse, Esq., of Aramstone House and Yatton Court, co. Hereford; and secondly, in April, 1825, the Hon. Elizabeth Jane Rowley, sister of the late and aunt of the present Lord Langford. Agents – Hallett and Ilobinson.