George Ferguson, 5th Laird of Pitfour
Scottish naval officer and Tory politician; also known as “The Admiral” or “The Sailor” to differentiate him from his father.
George Ferguson (Lt Governor of Tobago)
George Ferguson (1748 – 29 December 1820) was the fourth Laird of Pitfour, a large estate in the Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland which became known as The Blenheim of the North.
James Ferguson (Scottish politician)
James Ferguson (25 May 1735 – 6 September 1820) was a Scottish advocate and Tory politician and the third Laird of Pitfour, a large estate in the Buchan area of northeast Scotland, which is known as the ‘Blenheim of the North’.
James Ferguson, Lord Pitfour
Scottish advocate and second Laird of Pitfour, a large estate in Buchan. He was elevated to the bench in 1764.
James Ferguson, 1st Laird of Pitfour
Scottish lawyer and the 1st Laird of Pitfour, a large estate in the Buchan area of north-east Scotland.
John Gregorson Campbell
Scottish folklorist and Free Church minister at the Tiree and Coll parishes in Argyll, Scotland.
Robert Southey
Robert Southey (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England’s poet laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843
Ernest Terah Hooley
Ernest Terah Hooley (5 February 1859 – 11 February 1947) was an English financier who specialised in acquiring companies and then reselling them at inflated prices, making himself substantial profits in the process.
Elizeus Hall
Sixteenth-century prophet and false messiah who claimed to be a messenger from God.
James Burton
James Burton (1784–1868) was the owner of several cotton mills in Tyldesley and Hindsford in the mid-19th century.