William John Fergusson was a solicitor and politician from New South Wales, Australia.
He was a practicing solicitor in Sydney before entering politics,[1] having been admitted in March 1876.
[5] Political parties emerged in New South Wales in 1887, divided on fiscal lines, and despite his previous opposition to Jennings, Fergusson stood as a Protectionist candidate at the 1887 election for Wentworth, finishing a distant fourth.
[7] He was a partner in the legal firm Fergusson and Broad and by 1893 the partnership was in difficulty, having received £1,000 from a client and £500 went missing.
[9] It appears that he never returned to Australia,[10] and his wife obtained a divorce in 1912 on the grounds of desertion.