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Sir Henry Robert Ferguson Davie, 1st Baronet DL (1797 – 30 November 1885), known as Henry Ferguson until 1846, of Creedy Park,

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, was

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for Haddington in

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, 1847 to 1878 and an army officer. The son of Robert Ferguson,

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, he joined the British Army in 1818. He rose through the ranks as follows: Lieutenant (1819), Captain (1822), Major (1826), Lieutenant Colonel (1828), Colonel (1841), Major General (1854), Lieutenant General (1860) and General (1866). He was appointed Colonel of the

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on 17 February 1865. The Regiment became the second Battalion, The Black Watch in 1881, and the General served as Colonel of the Battalion until his death. In 1823, he married Frances Juliana Davie, daughter of Sir John Davie, 9th Baronet, of Creedy, and niece and heiress of Sir Humphrey Davie, 10th and last Baronet, of Creedy. In 1846 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Davie and the following year the baronetcy held by his wife's family was revived when he was created a Baronet, of Creedy in the County of Devon. on 9 January 1847. He had six children, amongst whom

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officer, succeeded to the Baronetcy in 1885 and Charles Robert (born 1836) was Rector of

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. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Devonshire and Somerset and lived at Creedy Park in

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