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About Sir Adam Fergusson, 3rd Baronet
Sir Adam Fergusson, 3rd Baronet of Kilkerran, FRSE LLD was a Scottish advocate, politician and slave-owner. He was described as able but humourless. Together with contemporaries such as Robert Dundas he was part of what was called the Scotch Ministry in parliament in the late 18th century. He was joint owner, with his brothers and members of the Hunter-Blair family, of plantations in Tobago and Jamaica and of several hundred enslaved African people.
Everything about Sir Adam Fergusson, 3rd Baronet →- Occupation
- politician, plantation owner, jurist
- Position held
- member of the 14th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 15th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 16th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 17th Parliament of Great Britain
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- May 7, 1733, May 8, 1733
- Died
- September 25, 1813