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Jordan Ferguson OC
Jordan Mather Ferguson OC, (Dakyn's House 1986-1991) passed away in Ireland on 27 June 2008. He was diagnosed with terminal cancer and poignantly left "Letters to Sebastian" containing fatherly advice to his nine-year-old son to be opened at various stages of his life. The book was published with the title "Dear Sebastian" shortly after he died, leaving instructions for his mother, Christine Horgan, to complete the book, along with specific instructions that after a donation to The Irish Hospice Society, all profits are to go into a trust fund for Sebastian's education.
The book has been a huge success in Ireland - it was no. 1 in the Irish non-fiction hardback bestsellers list for several weeks after it was published last September, and remained in the top 10 almost until Christmas.
The book is available in some branches of Waterstones and W. H. Smith and can be readily ordered from either of them online. It is also available from Amazon.
The paperback version is due to be published in April.
His friend Rob MacAlister (OC) writes:
"After leaving Clifton in 1991, Jordan studied at Bristol University before moving to Toronto where he set up an internet company during the dotcom boom. He also lived in Singapore wihere he worked for some time as a Trader in a large investment bank. Back in the UK, he had a successful career as European MD for BetFair.com. He was fluent in Thai and spent several holidays there with his young son Sebastian. He was remarkably well-travelled, both in leisure and, in years later, business. One week it could be Costa Rica and the following, Ukraine.
He was great company to all who knew him; over the years he kept in contact with many OCs in London and abroad. We will all sadly miss him. In the last few months, when he cancer was diagnosed, he went to live with his family in Kinsale, Southern Ireland. It was here that he died."
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