Excerpt from Biographical Sketch: Or Memoir of Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Ferguson; Originally Intended for the British Encyclopaedia
Superior military genius is but rare among the gifts of nature; and of those who are endowed with it, many are stopt short in the early stages of a profession of which they are forward to incur the dangers. Such as survive those dangers, and attain to eminent stations in the service of their country, are secure of their fame. For those who fall prematurely it is but fair, as often as they can be distinguished, to affix to their memory the marks of honour they covet, and for which the votaries of profit will not surely contend with them.
If the young man who is the subject of the present article had escaped the dangers to which he was so often exposed, it is probable that the annals of his country would have spoken more fully for him.
He was second son of James Ferguson, Esq. of Pitfour, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and Lords Commissioners of Justiciary in Scotland, by Anne Murray, daughter of Alexander Lord Elibank; and, with this descent, fortunately united in his own character, the calm judgment and exalted abilities of his father, with the vivacity and genius of his mother"s family.
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