Rt. Hon.
Robert
Cutlar
"17th of Craigdarroch"
Fergusson
Born in Craigdarroch, Glencairn, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Ancestors 
Son of Alexander Fergusson
and Deborah (Cutlar) Fergusson
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Mary Josephine (Auger) de Prangy
— married
17 May 1832 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at age 66
in Paris, France
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Jul 2017
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Biography
FERGUSSON, Robert Cutlar (?1770-1838) of Orroland, Kirkcudbright and Craigdarroch, Dumfries
Constituency Dates
KIRKCUDBRIGHT STEWARTRY 1826 - 16 Nov. 1838
Family and Education b. ?1770, 1st s. of Alexander Fergusson, adv., of Craigdarroch and Deborah, da. of Robert Cutlar, merchant, of Dumfries. educ. Edinburgh; L. Inn 1792, called 1797. m. 17 May 1832, Marie Josephine, da. of Gen. Augier, 1s. 1da. suc. fa. 1796. d. 16 Nov. 1838.[1]
Offices Held Standing counsel, Bengal 1813-18, king’s adv. 1818-25. Judge adv.-gen. July-Dec. 1834, Apr. 1835-Nov. 1838; PC 16 July 1834.
Robert Cutlar Fergusson was born in 1772. He was the son of Alexander Fergusson and Deborah Cutlar. "Fergusson belonged to an old Dumfriesshire family with an estate at Craigdarroch, near Moniaive, close to the border with Kirkcudbright Stewartry. His great-grandfather Alexander Fergusson (1685-1749), whose father was killed at Killiecrankie (1689) as a lieutenant-colonel in William III’s army, married the celebrated Annie Laurie and was Whig Member for Dumfries Burghs, 1715-22. When his grandfather James Fergusson died in 1771, Craigdarroch passed to his son and heir Alexander (b. 1746), an eminent advocate and hero of Burns’s ballad ‘The Whistle’, whose marriage to Deborah Cutlar (in Edinburgh, 23 July 1769) brought the Stewartry property of Orroland into the family. Craigdarroch was inherited by Robert Cutlar Fergusson on his father’s death in a chaise accident, 30 Apr. 1796."[1]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 FERGUSSON, Robert Cutlar (?1770-1838), of Orroland, Kirkcudbright and Craigdarroch, Dumfries Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832, ed. D.R. Fisher, 2009 Available from Cambridge University Press http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/fergusson-robert-1770-1838
Married Mary Josephine Auger Prangy.
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