Sir Samuel Ferguson
(1810-1886)

poet, antiquary, and Knight Bachelor (from 1878)

Died aged c. 76

Sir Samuel Ferguson (10 March 1810 – 9 August 1886) was an Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant. He was an acclaimed 19th-century Irish poet, and his interest in Irish mythology and early Irish history can be seen as a forerunner of William Butler Yeats and the other poets of the Irish Literary Revival.

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Sir Samuel Ferguson 1810-1886 poet and antiquarian born in 14 High Street which was on this site

23 High Street, Belfast, United Kingdom where they was born (1810)