Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae

Brigadier Bernard Edward Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae KT, GCMG, GCVO, DSO, OBE was a British Army officer, a military historian and the last Britishborn GovernorGeneral of New Zealand.

Fergusson was born onMay 1911, the third son and fourth child of Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet and his wife Lady Alice Mary Boyle, a daughter of David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow. His older brother was Sir James Fergusson, 8th Baronet of Kilkerran. Both his grandfathers had previously served as Governors of New Zealand and his father had served as GovernorGeneral.

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