Colyer-Fergusson baronets

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The Fergusson, later Colyer-Fergusson Baronetcy, of Spitalhaugh in the County of Peebles and of George Street in the parish of St George Hanover Square in the County of Middlesex, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 23 January 1866 for the Scottish surgeon William Fergusson. [1] The second Baronet served as Vice-Lieutenant of Peeblesshire. The third Baronet assumed the additional surname of Colyer in 1890 and served as High Sheriff of Kent in 1906. The title became extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet in 2004.

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Fergusson, later Colyer-Fergusson baronets, of Spitalhaugh (1866)

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  1. "No. 23059". The London Gazette . 12 January 1866. p. 209.

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