Royal Naval Biography/Ferguson, George

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GEORGE FERGUSON, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1814.]

Was made lieutenant Mar. 30, 1805; commander Dec. 27, 1808; and post-captain June 6, 1814.

On the 14th Dec. 1809, being then in the Pylades sloop, on the Mediterranean station, he captured l’Aigle French privateer, of 10 guns and 80 men.

Captain Ferguson married, first, in 1812, Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of J. Woodhouse, Esq. of Aramstone House, Herefordshire; and secondly, in April, 1825, the Hon. Elizabeth Jane Rowley, sister to the present Lord Langford.

Agents.– Messrs. Maude and Co.