Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet

[1] Between August 1824 and November 1825, he temporarily suspended his legal career to complete a grand tour of Northern Europe, Italy and Switzerland, financed in part by his aunt, Miss Christian Dalrymple.

As well as allowing an unguarded insight into his thoughts and character, these highlight his fascination with the Arts, architecture, religion, and with the people and cultures he encountered.

He and his father received compensation in 1836 for the 198 enslaved people emancipated in 1834–1838 on the estate in Jamaica that they co-owned with Sir David Hunter-Blair, 3rd Baronet.

[6] In 1837, Fergusson succeeded to the estates of his grandfather, Lord Hailes, in East and Mid Lothian, and in 1838 to those of his father in Ayrshire, on which he constantly lived.

Fergusson married Helen, daughter of the David Boyle, lord-justice-general of Scotland, by whom he had nine children: His Ayrshire tenants raised a monument to his memory.