politician
British Member of Parliament (1733–1813)
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.
