Biography: Fergusson, Bernard Edward

Meeting the public

Sir Bernard Fergusson was an immensely popular governor-general, attracting large crowds wherever he went. Here he and his wife Lady Laura Fergusson and son Geordie wave to an after-theatre crowd in Wellington in 1962.

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Reference: EP-NZ Obits-Fa to Fe-01

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Sarah Burgess. 'Fergusson, Bernard Edward', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2021. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47428/meeting-the-public (accessed 4 June 2026).