Sir Robert Ferguson, 2nd Baronet

Who was Sir Robert Ferguson, 2nd Baronet?

Sir Robert Alexander Ferguson, 1st Baronet was a Whig and then Liberal Party politician from Ireland.

Ferguson succeeded to the baronetcy in July 1808, after the first baronet, Sir Andrew Ferguson was killed in accident on a bridge in Moville, County Donegal.

He was appointed High Sheriff of Donegal in 1818 and High Sheriff of Tyrone in 1825 and then elected as the Member of Parliament for Londonderry City at the 1830 general election, but his election was declared void. He was re-elected at the resulting by-election held on 2 April 1831, and held the seat until his death in 1860, at the age of 63, when the baronetcy became extinct.

Ferguson was Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry from 1840 to 1860.