Robert Cutlar Fergusson

His great-grandfather was Alexander Fergusson, the husband of Annie Laurie of folksong fame.

[1] He was gaoled for a year in the King's Bench prison in the late 1790s for being associated with Arthur O'Connor and Father James Coigly, United Irishmen who were trying to coordinate a republican insurrection in Ireland, with radical circles in Britain and with the French Directory.

On his release he decided it would be wise to leave the country and therefore moved to India[2] where he worked as a barrister for some 30 years in the Supreme Court of Judicature at Calcutta.

Dwarkanath Tagore, the great Bengal entrepreneur, was apprenticed under him in 1810, and Fergusson was one of the two leading influences in his life.

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