Richard Saul Ferguson
[1] He was admitted a student of Lincoln's Inn on 11 October 1858, and was called to the bar on 13 June 1862, when he commenced practice as an equity draughtsman and conveyancer, and joined the northern circuit.
From January 1871 to June 1872 he travelled in Egypt, Australia, and America for the sake of his health, and on his return gave the public an account of his experiences in a series of letters in the Carlisle Patriot, which were reprinted, with the addition of Leaves from a Theban Guide Book, as Moss gathered by a Rolling Stone (Carlisle, 1873).
[2] After his return Ferguson settled at Carlisle, and devoted himself to the study of local antiquities.
He associated with others of similar tastes, including Michael Waistell Taylor, Robert Harkness, and Sir George Floyd Duckett.
Under his guidance nearly the whole of Cumberland and Westmorland were explored, and record made of castles, churches, houses, manuscripts, and old customs.
On the death of Canon James Simpson in 1886, Ferguson succeeded him as president of the society.
[2] Ferguson was made a magistrate of the county of Cumberland in 1872, and a member of the Carlisle city bench in 1881.
[2] In 1887 Harvey Goodwin, bishop of Carlisle, appointed Ferguson chancellor of the diocese, a post that had not previously been held by a layman.
[2] Captain Spencer Charles Ferguson (13 August 1868-13 Dec 1958) OBE, JP lived in 1910 at 37 Lowther Street, Carlisle only son of Chancellor Richard Saul Ferguson born at Richmond, Surrey.
74 Lowther Street, Carlisle, unmarried 32 year old Captain in the Northumberland Fusiliers.
10 August 1901 Taunton- 1983), daughter of Owen Talbot Price who lived at Ironshill Lodge, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, Ferguson's first literary production was a series of articles on Early Cumberland and Westmorland Friends in the Carlisle Journal, a number of biographical sketches of leading quakers in the two counties.
's from the Restoration to the Reform Bill of 1867 (London), a book containing a full political history of the counties.
He also wrote:[2] Ferguson edited a series of works for the Cumberland and Westmorland Archæological Society:[2] Ferguson contributed a biographical notice of Michael Waistell Taylor to Taylor's Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, 1892, and a preface to Hugh Alexander Macpherson's Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland, 1892.
