James Ferguson was born in 1849 in Perthshire, Scotland. His father, John, was a merchant. He started at the University of Glasgow in 1887 studying medicine and chemistry. He graduated with an MB CM in 1881. After graduating he worked as a resident surgeon and physician in Perth Royal Infirmary and published a number of research papers in medical journals, such as On a Modification of Sponge Grafting , which was published in the British Medical Journal in 1882, and Case of movable kidney with a peculiar history in the Glasgow Medical Journal in 1889. He spent the rest of his career working as a physician in the Perth Royal Infirmary. He died on 22 September 1903.
From the guide to the Papers of James Ferguson, 1849-1903, medical graduate, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 1878-1891, (Glasgow University Archive Services)
