Annual Burns Lunch

Burns Aficionado Jim Ferguson

The House For An Art Lover

23 January 2018

Jim held a number of senior posts in industry including industrial engineering manager at Chrysler UK and manufacturing engineering manager at Albion Motors. He is now a retired senior divisional manager at Philips Lighting in Hamilton.

His main hobby is fly fishing and he is a Scottish Internationalist and Past President of a number of angling clubs. Jim has been a Rotarian for 30 years and is Past President of the Barrhead club, where he is now an Honorary Member. He is an avid Burns singer and reader and performed at 14 Burns suppers in 2017. He is highly sought after on the Burns circuit.

Born and bred in Paisley’s West–End, Jim now resides in Barrhead. Married to Jean for 49 years, they have 3 children and 6 grandchildren.