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| Date transcribed | 2011-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Jane Britcliffe, Peter Schofield, Penny Tipper | | Comment | List of Ministers of the Church of Scotland who served in India or South Asia, extracted from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae |
| | Section | India  | | | Volume No. | 7 | | | Page No. | 693 | | | Surname | Ferguson | | | Christian Name(s) | William | | | Wife 1 Surname | Rutland | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Isabel | | | Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s) | Isabel | | | Wife 2 Surname | Mullens | | | Wife 2 Christian name(s) | Alice Maria | | | Children to 2nd Wife | George Argyll; Macleod Menzies; Agatha Mary | | | Father-in-law remarks | Joseph Mullens, D.D., eminent Indian missionary | | | Body of text | FERGUSON, WILLIAM, born Saline, Fife, 30th September 1821, son of George F and Mary Keir; educated at Saline School and University of Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh; missionary, Robertson Memorial Church, Grassmarket, Edinburgh, 1852-3; ordained missionary to Bombay in 1853; chaplain to Forces in India, 1854-63 (attached to 71st Highlanders, served in the Mutiny and was present at the capture of Lucknow); resigned in 1863 and became missionary at Chamba, Panjab, which he carried on for ten years as an independent mission until taken over by the Church of Scotland; returned to Scotland and was Deputy for the WAFM; appointed a second time as military chaplain, served with the troops in Cyprus and minister of the Scots Church at Limasol, 1878-99; again volunteered for foreign mission work and returned to Chamba (in his 79th year); died at Chamba 1st September 1904. Perhaps no minister of the Church of Scotland had a more varied or more romantic career. A man of unique personality, of singular devotion and self-denial, the friend of ryot and Raja, the story of his work at Chamba is one of the brightest chapters in the Christianisation of India. Through all the coming years his memorial will be the Church which he founded in those Himalayan valleys. [Since 1873 this Mission has been superintended by John Hutchison, LRCP and SE, a native of Johnstone-in-Annandale.] He married (1) Isabel Rutland, who died at Malta, and had issue - Isabel, born 30th July 1859 (married J. Treadwell, clergyman of Church of England): (2) 30th January 1865, Alice Maria, daughter of Joseph Mullens, DD, eminent Indian missionary, and Hannah Lacroix, and had issue - George Argyll, curate of Spittlegate, Grantham, born 13th January 1867; MacLeod Menzies, banker, born 24th January 1868; Agatha Mary, born 29th September 1872 (married FB Glover, shipowner, London). Publications - Several Papers and Pamphlets on Missions. [Youngson's Forty Years of the Panjab Mission, 143-67.]
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