The Fergusson Baronetcy, of Kilkerran in the County of Ayr, is a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia.
The third Baronet, who with his brothers owned plantations and enslaved people in Jamaica and Tobago, sat as Member of Parliament for Ayrshire and Edinburgh.
Sir James Andrew Fergusson (1872–1942), second son of the sixth Baronet, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy.
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae, Governor-General of New Zealand from 1962 to 1967, was the youngest son of the seventh Baronet.
The heir apparent is the current holder's son, James Fergusson (born 1996).
Arms:
Azure a Buckle Argent between three Boar's Heads couped Or on a Dexter Canton Argent a Saltire Azure surmounted of an Inescutcheon Or charged with a Lion rampant within a Double Tressure flory counter-flory Gules;
Crest:
Upon a Chapeau Gules furred Ermine a Bee on a Thistle proper;
Supporters:
(on a Compartment embellished with Poplar Seedlings) Two Gryphons Or armed and beaked Gules (granted 1753 in recognition of the 2nd Baronet's legal prowess);
Mottoes:
1 (over Crest):
Dulcius Ex Asperis
(All the sweeter for coming from bitterness); 2 (on Compartment):
Ut Prosim Aliis
(That I may be of use to others)
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