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FERGUSON, SIR SAMUEL (1810-1886) , Irish poet and antiquary, was born at Belfast, on the loth of March 181o. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, was called to the Irish bar in 1838, and was made Q.C. in 1859, but in 1867 retired from practice upon his appointment as deputy-keeper of the Irish records, then in a much neglected condition. He was an excellent civil servant, and was knighted in 1878 for his services to the department. His spare time was given to general literature, and in particular to poetry. He had long been a leading contributor to the Dublin University Magazine and to Blackwood, where he had published his two literary master-pieces, " The Forging of the Anchor," one of the finest of modern ballads
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Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales, Scotland , was published in the year after his death.See Sir Samuel Ferguson in the Ireland of his Day (1896), by his wife, Mary C. Ferguson; also an article by A. P. Graves
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