Memorials and Recognition
A blue plaque commemorating Ferguson is mounted on the Ulster Bank building in Donegall Square, Belfast, the former site of his showroom. A granite memorial has been erected to Ferguson's pioneering flight on the North Promenade, Newcastle, and a full-scale replica of the Ferguson monoplane and an early Ferguson tractor and plough can be seen at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum at Cultra.
Ferguson was commemorated in 1981 when he appeared on stamps issued by the Irish Post Office in the Republic of Ireland. In Northern Ireland, Ferguson's image appears today on the obverse of £20 sterling notes issued by the Northern Bank.
In 2008 the Harry Ferguson Memorial gardens were officially opened, opposite the house Harry Ferguson lived in, just outside Dromara, Co. Down. A beautiful bespoke life-size bronze sculpture of Ferguson by John Sherlock OBE ARUA, recognised as Northern Ireland's most eminent bronze sculptor, was erected in the garden depicting Ferguson leaning on a fence surveying the view. The gardens are open to the public.
The University of Ulster opened the Harry Ferguson Engineering Village (18 February 2004) on the Jordanstown campus in recognition of the outstanding contribution made by him to engineering and innovation in Ireland.
Ferguson died at his home at Stow-on-the Wold in 1960, the result of a barbiturate overdose; the inquest was unable to conclude whether this had been accidental or not.
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