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John Ferguson


Born
Callander, Perthshire, The United Kingdom
Died
December 03, 1952


John Ferguson (1871-1952) was a Scottish clergyman, playwright, and mystery writer.

John Ferguson was born at Callander, Perthshire, but has made his home in many sharply contrasted places, from the misty isle of Skye to the sunlit island of Guernsey. And though now a resident in the New Forest near Lymington he lived for six years in the grim Dunimarle Castle in Fife, where Macduff's wife and child were murdered by Mac­beth. As a dramatist Mr Ferguson is probably best known for his now famous play Campbell of Kilmohr, which at its first Royalty Theatre production was hailed by the dramatic critic of the Glasgow Herald as 'a new and significant type of Scottish drama'. Of John Ferguson's work one critic has said, 'As no two of his stories ar
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“if any foreign or strange thing be put into it, it is straight corrupted and that which is sought shall not be obtained.”
John Ferguson, Rosarium Philosophorum - The Rosary of the Philosopher

“My Son, before all things I counsel thee to fear God, in whom the sight of thy disposition remains, and the help of every thing sequestered from thee.”
John Ferguson, Rosarium Philosophorum - The Rosary of the Philosopher

“Sow gold and silver, and it will bring unto thee most pleasant fruit by thy labour with the help of nature, because that only hath the thing which thou seek, and no other thing of the world,”
John Ferguson, Rosarium Philosophorum - The Rosary of the Philosopher

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