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See also:FERGUSSON, See also:ROBERT (1750-1774) , Scottish poet, son of See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Fergusson, a clerk in the See also:British See also:Linen See also:Company, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the 5th of See also:September 1750. Robert was educated at the See also:grammar school of See also:Dundee, and at the university of St See also:Andrews, where he matriculated in 1765. His See also:father died while he was still at See also:college; but a bursary enabled him to See also:complete his four years of study. He refused to study for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and was too See also:nervous to study See also:medicine as his See also:friends wished. He quarrelled with his See also:uncle, See also:John See also:Forbes of See also:Round Lichnot, See also:Aberdeenshire, and went to Edinburgh, where he obtained employment as copying clerk in a lawyer's See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office. In this humble occupation he passed the See also:remainder of his See also:life. While at college he had written a See also:clever See also:elegy on Dr See also:David See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
Gregory, and in 1771 he began to contribute verses regularly to See also:Ruddiman's Weekly See also:Magazine. He was a member of the Cape See also:Club, celebrated by him in his poem of " Auld Reekie." " The Knights of the Cape " assembled at a See also:tavern in See also:Craig's See also:Close, in the vicinity of the See also:Cross; each member had a name and See also:character assigned to him, which he was required to maintain at all gatherings of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order. David See also:Herd (1732–1810), the See also:collector of the classic edition of See also:Ancient and See also:Modern Scottish Songs (1776), was See also:sovereign of the Cape (in which he was known as " Sir Scrape ") when Fergusson was dubbed a See also:knight of the order, with the See also:title of " Sir See also:Precentor," in allusion to his See also:fine See also:voice. See also:Alexander See also:Runciman, the See also:historical painter, his See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil See also:Jacob More, and Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Raeburn were all members. The old See also:minute books of the club abound with pencilled sketches by them, one of the most interesting of which, ascribed to Runciman's See also:pencil, is a See also:sketch of Fergusson in his character of " Sir Precentor."
Fergusson's gaiety and wit made him an entertaining See also:companion, and he indulged too freely in the convivial habits of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. After a See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting with John See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown of See also:Haddington he became, however, very serious, and would read nothing but his See also:Bible. A fall by which his See also:head was severely injured aggravated symptoms of See also:mental See also:aberration which had begun to show themselves; and after about two months' confinement in the old See also:Darien House—then the only public See also:asylum in Edinburgh—the poet died on the 16th of See also:October 1774.
Fergussons' poems were collected in the See also:year before his See also:death. The See also:influence of his writings on Robert See also:Burns is undoubted. His " See also:Leith Races " unquestionably supplied the See also:model for the " See also:Holy See also:Fair." Not only is the See also:stanza the same, but the Mirth who plays the See also:part of conductor to Fergusson, and the Fun who renders a like service to Burns, are manifestly conceived on the same model. " The Mutual Complaint of Plainstanes and Causey " probably suggested " The Brigs of See also:Ayr "; " On seeing a Butterfly in the See also:Street " has reflections in it which strikingly correspond with " To a See also:Mouse "; nor will a comparison of " The See also:Farmer's Ingle " of the See also:elder poet with " The Cottar's Saturday See also:Night " admit of a doubt as to the influence of the See also:city-bred poet's muse on that exquisite picturing of homely See also:peasant life. Burns was himself the first to render a generous See also:tribute to the merits of Fergusson; on his visit to Edinburgh in 1787 he sought out the poet's See also:grave, and petitioned the authorities of the Canongate burying-ground for permission to erect the memorial See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone which is preserved in the existing See also:monument. The date there assigned for his See also:birth differs from the one given above, which rests on the authority of his younger See also:sister See also:Margaret.
The first edition of Fergusson's poems was published by Ruddiman at Edinburgh in 1773, and a supplement containing additional poems, in 1779. A second edition appeared in 1785. There are later See also:editions, by Robert See also:Chambers (185o) and Dr A. B. See also:Grosart (1851). A life of Fergusson is included in Dr David See also:Irving's Lives of the Scottish Poets, and in Robert Chambers's Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Scotsmen.
End of Article: FERGUSSON, ROBERT (1750-1774)
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