Fergus

( Derrick ). Engineer in the coalpits of Lancashire. “A young son of Anak, brains and muscle evenly balanced and fully developed.” Is interested in Joan Lowrie and at last wins her to a promise “to work an’ strive to make herself worthy of the man she loves.”—Frances Hodgson Burnett, That La of Lowrie’s (1877). Fergus , fourth son of Fingal, and the only one that had i ue at the death of his father. O ian, the eldest brother, had a son named Oscar, but Oscar was slain at a feast by Cairbar “Lord of Atha;” and of the other two brothers, Fillan was slain before he had married, and Ryno, though married, died without i ue. According to tradition, Fergus (son of Fingal) was the father of Congal; Congal of Arcath; and Arcath of Fergus II., with whom begins the real history of the Scots.—O ian. Fergus , son of Ro a, a brave hero in the army of Cut hull in, general of the Irish tribes. Fergus first in our joy at the feast; son of Ro a; arm of death.—O ian, Fingal , i.