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	Robert Fergusson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Fergusson (September 5, 1750 - October 16, 1774), Scottish poet, son of Sir William Fergusson, a clerk in the British Linen Company, was born at Edinburgh.
		Robert was educated at the grammar school of Dundee, and at the University of St Andrews, where he matriculated in 1765.
		Burns was the first to pay tribute to the merits of Fergusson; on his visit to Edinburgh in 1787 he sought out the poet's grave, and petitioned the authorities of the Canongate burying-ground for permission to erect the memorial stone which is preserved in the existing monument.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Fergusson (636 words)

	Clan Fergusson. A history of Clan Fergusson, complete with motto, tartan, clan crest,
		Fergusson is a name that has been found in different districts of Scotland almost as long as the name has been alive although the origin of the clan is generally considered to be in Ross-shire.
		The Fergussons of Argyllshire claim to be the descendants of Fergus Mór mac Erc, a Scots king from the times of Dalriada, and represent the connection with the boars head on their shield.
		Robert Fergusson was born in 1750 and died in an Edinburgh asylum aged twenty three.
	www.angelfire.com /d20/sbrentfergusson/history.html (1115 words)

	Robert Cutlar Fergusson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Cutlar Fergusson (1768-1838) was one of the more distinguished members of the clan Fergussons.
		He was 17th Laird of the Dumfriesshire Fergussons, seated at Craigdarroch (Moniaive, Dumfriesshire).
		He was a lawyer; an Attorney-General of Bengal; MP for the Stewardtry of Kirkcudbright, Judge Advocate General and a Privy Councillor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Cutlar_Fergusson (93 words)

	Poetry by Robert Fergusson
		Among his fellow students, Fergusson was distinguished for vivacity and humour, and his poetical talents soon began to display themselves on subjects of local and occasional interest, in such a way as to attract the notice both of his companions and of their teachers.
		Fergusson came running up, apparently in a state of high perturbation; and, accosting them familiarly, as he was wont, acquainted them, that, confused and perturbed as he was, it was a marvel that they saw him alive that day at all.
		Fergusson’s manners were always accommodated to the moment: he was gay, serious, set the table in a roar, charmed with his powers of song, or bore with becoming dignity his part in learned or philosophical disquisition.
	www.electricscotland.com /poetry/fergusson.htm (7889 words)

	ROBERT FERGUSSON - LoveToKnow Article on ROBERT FERGUSSON
		A fall by which his head was severely injured aggravated symptoms of mental aberration which had begun to show themselves; and after about two months confinement in the old Darien Housethen the only public asylum in Edinburgh the poet died on the 16th of October 1774.
		Burns was himself the first t-o render a generous tribute to the merits of Fergusson; on his visit to Edinburgh in 1787 he sought out the poets grave, and peti~tioned the authorities of the Canongate burying-ground for permission to erect the memorial stone which is preserved in the existing monument.
		A life of Fergusson is included in Dr David Irvings Lives of the Scottish Poets, and in Robert Chamberss Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Scoisnien.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FE/FERGUSSON_ROBERT.htm (610 words)

	§23. Robert Fergusson: his personality and poetic qualities. XIV. Scottish Popular Poetry before Burns. Vol. 9. ...
		The ill-fated Robert Fergusson died in a madhouse at the early age of twenty-four.
		Be this as it may, in the short career that was to be his, he succeeded, like Burns, in depicting the scenes which he thoroughly knew, and expressing the thoughts and sentiments akin to his circumstances and to the life he led.
		Fergusson’s wit is not so gross and it is more keenly barbed, his sympathetic appreciation is stronger, his survey is more comprehensive, his vernacular is racier, he has a better sense of style, he is more of a creative artist, and he is decidedly more poetic.
	www.bartleby.com /219/1423.html (631 words)

	Fergusson, Robert (1750-74). Poet. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Robert Fergusson, one of Scotland's greatest poets, was born at a house in Cap and Feather Close, Edinburgh, on 5 September 1750.
		Robert attended the Edinburgh High School, and in 1762 he won a bursary to Dundee Grammar School and then to St. Andrews University, where in April 1765 he wrote his first known poem, the comic "Elegy on the Death of Mr David Gregory, late Professor of Mathematics".
		Fergusson enjoyed a busy social life in the taverns and drinking clubs of the Royal Mile, being friendly with many actors, and with the singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci, who included three songs by Fergusson in his production of Thomas Arne's opera "Artaxerxes".
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~crumey/robert_fergusson.html (472 words)

	Fergusson Bibliography (McKenzie) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Patrick Menneteau, "Robert Fergusson's Contribution to the Definition of a Scottish Cultural Identity," Études Écossaises, Special Issue: Proceedings of the Scottish Workshop of the ESSE Conference, 1993 (1994): 39-58.
		John Speirs, "Robert Fergusson," in The Scots Literary Tradition: An Essay in Criticism (London: Chatto and Windus, 1940), pp.
		Robert Crawford, "Robert Fergusson's Robert Burns," in Robert Burns and Cultural Authority (Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press, 1999), pp.
	www.c18.rutgers.edu /biblio/fergusson.html (980 words)

	BBC - Writing Scotland - Scotland's Languages - Robert Fergusson - Works
		Politically, Fergusson was a Tory nationalist with Jacobite sympathies, and in ‘The Ghaists’ (1773), the poet is at his most jaggedly opinionated.
		Fergusson’s masterpiece is his panoramic ‘Auld Reikie, A Poem’ (1773), which surveys a day in the life of Edinburgh in spectacular fashion.
		Fergusson is often remembered as a forerunner of Robert Burns, as Burns’s ‘elder brother in the muses’.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/learning_journeys/scotlands_languages/robert_fergusson/works.shtml (768 words)

	BBC - Writing Scotland - Robert Fergusson
		Robert Fergusson was born of Aberdeenshire parents in Cap-and-Feather Close, in Edinburgh’s Old Town, on September 5th, 1750.
		Fergusson’s main concern was, of course, poetry, and on 7th February 1771, he anonymously published the first of a trio of pastorals in Ruddiman’s Weekly Magazine, entitled ‘Morning’, ‘Noon’ and ‘Night’.
		Fergusson subsequently enjoyed two years’ patronage from the Ruddimans, and submitted the periodical’s first Scots poem, ‘The Daft Days’, printed on 2nd January 1772.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/writers/robert_fergusson (415 words)

	Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Fergusson, Robert (1750-74)
		Robert was born in the Cap and Feather Close, Edinburgh, now partly occupied by North Bridge Street.
		Although Fergusson's prentice pieces were in somewhat stilted English, in 'the Daft Days', his first Scots piece, he showed himself the fitting recipient of the vernacular mantle laid aside by Allan Ramsay 14 years before.
		The exception is Fergusson's 'Farmer's Ingle', which is, as David Daiches says, 'both in inspiration and in integrity of feeling superior to Burns's 'Cotter's Saturday Night'.
	www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/FergussonRobert1750-74.352.shtml (1016 words)

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		Fergusson was hailed by his actor friend Frederick Guion as 'The Laureate' of that city, while another commentator praised him for reviving the tradition of Allan Ramsay.
		Fergusson is known to have inscribed copies to James Boswell, to the Earl of Glencairn (later a patron of Burns), to the ballad collector David Herd, and several others.
		Fergusson was Robert Burns's favourite Scottish poet, and, though they never met, they had friends in common.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /english/fergusson/fergussonlife.html (1630 words)

	Great Scotsmen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Contemporary writers of the 18th century idolised him, however, and no less a scribe than Robert Burns was, from his teenage years onwards, deeply influenced and inspired to become a poet by reading his work.
		Fergusson was born just off Edinburgh's Royal Mile in September 1750, the son of a solicitors clerk.
		Such was Burns' enduring respect and admiration for Fergusson that, in 1789, he personally commissioned and paid for the headstone which now marks his grave in the Capital's Canongate Kirkyard, after making a pilgrimage to his burial place and being shocked to find it completely unmarked.
	www.firstfoot.com /GreatScot/robertfergusson.htm (419 words)

	Scots poetic justice - [Sunday Herald]
		In his introduction, Robert Crawford says Robert Fergusson was “perhaps the first significant poet to read English literary texts as part of his [university] course”.
		Crawford suggests that in combining this academic learning with a “deep engagement with the culture of the people”, Fergusson was in accordance with modern poetic practice to the extent that he “might be called the first modern poet”.
		Fergusson, who had an aptitude for mathematics, became a favourite student of the professor, William Wilkie, who was not only a mathematician but a farmer and poet.
	www.sundayherald.com /35505 (792 words)

	Robert Fergusson - Buying Groups
		Robert Fergusson Pty Ltd are members of 3 of the biggest buying groups in Australia, in the Retail Electrical, Trade and Retail Plumbing, and Trade Electrical and Lighting areas.
		Robert Fergusson Pty Ltd are the sole Tasmanian member of the national plumbing buying group Plumbing Plus.
		Robert Fergusson covers the state of Tasmania with 4 stores serving the needs of Plumbers, Builders, Architects, The Renovator, The Home Handyman and the General Public.
	www.robertfergusson.com.au /buyg.html (999 words)

	Forgotten: the poet who most inspired Burns - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		However, supporters of Fergusson say he was a formidable talent in his own right and that it is he, more than anyone, who was responsible for making Burns the poet he is regarded as across the world today.
		Fergusson was a man who enjoyed fast living and who died young.
		So inspirational was Fergusson’s poetry that when Burns came to Edinburgh he wept by the side of his unmarked grave.
	www.sundayherald.com /35392 (509 words)

	GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - ROBERT FERGUSSON PAPERS: COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
		The Robert Fergusson Papers are preserved in seventy-five (75) folders in one archival box (0.5 linear feet).
		Fergusson's papers provide significant primary source material on the Potomac River tobacco trade of the late 1700s and early 1800s.
		Fergusson also represented Glassford, Gordon & Monteith; Neil Jamieson & Company; James Brown & Company of Glasgow, Scotland; the heirs of Matthew Blair; and Henry Glassford, Richard Henderson, and Alexander Henderson of Glassford & Henderson.
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/cl263.htm (928 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Robert Fergusson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Robert Burns, it should be acknowledged, recognized Fergusson as “By far my elder brother in the Muses”.
		Fergusson’s earliest poems, no longer much admired, were English pastorals, feebly voiced exercises in an exhausted genre.
		Fergusson’s Edinburgh is a talkative one, and he has several playful dialogues, including a “crack” (street-chat) between a sidewalk and a street about the traffic each bears (“Mutual Complaint of Plainstaines and Causey, In Their Mother-Tongue”).
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1504 (633 words)

	The Scottish Poetry Library
		The Friends of Robert Fergusson began to raise funds four years ago to put up a statue of Robert Fergusson, and the result of all their work was unveiled in a ceremony on Sunday 17 October by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Lesley Hinds, and Dr George Philp.
		Commissioned by The Friends of Robert Fergusson and sculpted by David Annand, the bronze figure commemorates the poet who is buried in the Canongate Churchyard.
		Fergusson's importance as a poet was felt by writers from Robert Louis Stevenson to Robert Garioch; contemporary writers including Kathleen Jamie and John Burnside re-examine his life and work in specially-commissioned poems and essays for a book called Heaven-Taught Fergusson (Tuckwell, 2003), and James Robertson edited a recent edition of Fergusson’s Selected Poems (Birlinn, 2000).
	www.spl.org.uk /news/2004_0111.html (299 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Gaffe spells trouble for memorial to writer
		The £3000 stones, which are carved with Fergusson's name, place of birth and death, and the first lines of his poem "Auld Reekie", state Fergusson was born in the "Cannongate".
		Robert Lawson Watt, fundraising coordinator for the Friends of Robert Fergusson, who have raised almost £40,000 to pay for the bronze statue, said the mistake had been made jointly by the artist, stonemasons Robertson Memorials and himself.
		Fergusson's poetry was so inspirational to Robert Burns that the Scots Bard paid for the gravestone at his burial place.
	news.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=2246042005 (886 words)

	MyClan.com : Clan Fergusson : Clan History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Fergussons held the lands of Kilkerran, probably from the twelfth century, but the first certain record is John Fergusson of Kilkerran in 1464.
		The Fergussons of Dunfallandy may well have a quite separate descent, but their heraldry proclaims them as cadets of the principal house of which Kilkerran is the recognised head.
		The Fergussons were not, however, without culture, and Robert Fergusson, who died in 1774, was the poet most admired by Robert Burns, who venerated his work and took it as his model.
	www.myclan.com /clans/Fergusson_36/default.php (841 words)

	The Scotsman - Scotland - Statue will take pride of place in Canongate
		Bob Watt, fundraising co-ordinator for the Friends of Robert Fergusson group, set up four years ago to campaign for a statue, said the full £30,000 cost of the sculpture had now been pledged, although final details of the unveiling ceremony were to be confirmed.
		Fergusson will face towards the Scottish Poetry Library, which is on the other side of the Canongate.
		Fergusson’s poetry was so inspirational to Burns that he paid for the gravestone that sits at Fergusson’s burial place.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=305022004 (580 words)

	Ian Duncan, On Crawford's _Robert Burns and Cultural Authority_ - Romantic Circles Reviews, Romantic Circles
		Robert Burns and Cultural Authority is based on a series of lectures given during the recent (1996) bicentennial year; something must have clicked, or jelled, in the proceedings, since the quality of contributions is uniformly high.
		The contribution by Robert Crawford, on Burns's links with his main (and worse neglected) Scots precursor Robert Fergusson, explores the common culture of masculine sociability—in local freemasons' and fencible clubs and similar organizations—that incubated so many literary careers in eighteenth-century Scotland.
		In "Authenticating Robert Burns," Nicholas Roe makes the intriguing claim that Burns was able to "resist" his own posthumous apotheosis as a self-destructive genius "by pre-empting it" (161): the argument is perhaps over-optimistic about the rhetorical efficacy of "self-awareness" as a mechanism of resistance, at any rate outside the bounds of an elite readership.
	www.rc.umd.edu /reviews/back/crawford.html (752 words)

	Bibliography, Section Two
		110-6, [1962 edition].'Tradition and Robert Fergusson', ibid., pp.
		Robert Burns and the Sentimental Era (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1985).'Scottish Hero, Scottish Victim: Myths of Robert Burns', The History of Scottish Literature Vol.
		Blair, Robert, The Grave: a poem with introduction by James A. Means (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1973) The Grave: A Poem, with Gray’s celebrated elegy in a country Church-yard, (Glasgow: Hutcheson, 1800).
	www2.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/ScotLit/bibliography/2ndsection.html (4459 words)

	Fifth Generation
		Robert was born about 1851 in Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, Durham, England.
		Robert and Mary are said to have divorced (?) about 1893.
		London together with his son Robert F. On 13 November 1919 Robert was pronounced bankrupt by the High Court of Justice.
	homepages.paradise.net.nz /r-c/5th_gen.html (583 words)

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