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unusual facts about James Ferguson, Lord Pitfour



James Ferguson, Lord Pitfour

A Jacobite sympathiser, he is best known for his defence of rebels standing trial at Carlisle after the Jacobite risings.

The land, adjacent to the Pitfour property, incorporated St Fergus and Inverugie Castle, the former seat of the Earls Marischal.

James Orrock

Orrock studied painting under James Ferguson, William L. Leitch, and John Burgess, later enrolling at the Nottingham School of Design where he was taught by Thomas Stuart Smith.

John Mudge

Other allies and guests of Mudge were James Ferguson, the astronomer, and James Northcote, originally a chemist's assistant, who owed him his position in Reynolds's studio.

Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers

Ferrers had Peter Perez Burdett (the figure on the left) as a house guest and he had attended a talk by James Ferguson who had given lectures on the orrery.


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