Sir Robert Ferguson, 2nd Baronet

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Sir Robert Alexander Ferguson, 2nd Baronet (26 December 1795 – 13 March 1860) was an Irish politician who started as a Whig and later joined the Liberal Party. He was born in Derry, the son of Sir Andrew Ferguson, a banker and mayor of Derry, and Elizabeth Alexander of the Broom Hall family. He became the 2nd Baronet in July 1808 after his father died in an accident on a bridge in Moville, County Donegal.

He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and earned a Master of Arts degree in 1817. He held several local offices: High Sheriff of Donegal in 1818 and High Sheriff of Tyrone in 1825. He commanded the Londonderry Militia from 1839 and became its Honorary Colonel in 1855. He was Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry from 1840 to 1860, and he lived at The Farm, County Londonderry.

In Parliament, he was elected MP for Londonderry City in 1830, but that election was voided. He won a by-election on 2 April 1831 and held the seat until his death in 1860. He was a member of the United University Club and, in 1859, voted in favor of the Derby ministry's reform bill. When he died, the baronetcy became extinct.

There is a statue of Ferguson in Brooke Park in Derry.