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Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet
General Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet (17 January 1865 – 20 February 1951) was a British Army officer and the third Governor-General of New Zealand.
==Early life and military career==
Charles was the son of Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet, the 6th Governor of New Zealand. He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, before joining the Grenadier Guards in 1883.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He served in Sudan from 1896 to 1898, becoming Commanding Officer of the 15th Sudanese Regiment in 1899 and Commander of the Omdurman District in 1900.〔 He was made Adjutant General of the Egyptian Army 1901 and Commanding Officer of 3rd Bn Grenadier Guards in 1904 before becoming a Brigadier-General on the staff of the Irish Command in 1907.〔 He was appointed Inspector of Infantry in 1909 and General Officer Commanding 5th Division in Ireland in 1913 – in this capacity he played a key role during the Curragh incident, ensuring his officers obeyed orders.〔(Oxford Dictionary of National Biography )〕 He took the 5th Division to France in August 1914 at the start of the First World War〔 and then briefly took command of 9th (Scottish) Division from October to December 1914.〔(Army Commands )〕 He commanded II Corps from January 1915 and then, from May 1916, XVII Corps corps which he led until the end of the war.〔
After the war he was a Military Governor of Cologne before he retired in 1922.〔
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