MACPHERSON, Ewen, known as Cluny Macpherson (1 son of Duncan Macpherson 1750–1817, lieut.-col. of 3 foot guards). b. 24 April 1804; became chief of the clan Macpherson 1817; ensign 1 foot 13 Nov. 1823, lieut. 5 Nov. 1825, placed on h.p. as captain 1 Oct. 1826; lieut.-col. Invernessshire highland rifle volunteers 3 June 1861 to 2 Nov. 1882, hon. col. 2 Nov. 1882 to death; permanent steward of Northern athletic meetings; his piper always played during his meal time; first chief of the Gaelic soc. 1871, served again in 1872; kept up breeds of pure highland cattle and black faced sheep; made a fine collection of arms and Scottish relics at Cluny castle; C.B. 24 May 1881. d. Cluny castle, Kingussie 11 Jany. 1885. Biograph, April 1881 pp. 337–41; I.L.N. lxxix 189 (1881), portrait.
MACPHERSON, Gerardine (elder child of Mr. Bate of London, artist). b. 1830 or 1831; discovered Michael Angelo’s picture The Entombment at Rome, and sold it to the National gallery, London 1868; executed the etchings for the second edition of Mrs. Jameson’s Legends of the Madonna 1857; wrote Memoirs of the life of Anna Jameson, which was published in 1878 after her death; gave lessons in English, worked as an amanuensis and as a newspaper correspondent in Rome; (m. 4 Sep. 1849 Robert Macpherson, artist, who settled in Rome as a painter, then as a photographer, and d. there 1873). d. Rome 24 May 1878. Macpherson’s Memoirs of Anna Jameson (1878), memoir of G. Macpherson pp. xiii–xvii, 360.
MACPHERSON, Sir Herbert Taylor (son of Duncan Macpherson, major 78 foot). b. Ardersier, co. Inverness 27 Feb. 1827; ensign 78 foot 28 Feb. 1845, captain 5 Oct. 1857; captain 82 foot 26 Feb. 1859; captain Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut.-col. 28 Feb. 1871; obtained V.C. 18 June 1858 for his conduct at defence of Lucknow 25 Sep. 1857; brigadier general Bengal 15 April 1876 to 9 Nov. 1878; commanded first brigade of first division of Khyber column in Afghan war 1878–9; M.G. Bengal 1880–5; commanded the Indian contingent in expeditionary force to Egypt 4 Aug. to Oct. 1882; C.B. 30 Aug. 1869, K.C.B. 22 Feb. 1881; K.C.S.I. 17 Nov. 1882; M.G. 1 July 1882; commander-in-chief at Madras 1 March 1886, assumed command of force of 30,000 men in Burmah 9 Sep. 1886. d. on board steamer Irrawaddy directly after leaving Prome for Rangoon 20 Oct. 1886. J. F. Maurice’s Campaign in Egypt (1887) p. 208; Graphic xxvi 553 (1882), portrait.
MACPHERSON, Hugh. b. 1768; a surgeon in the army; professor of Greek in univ. and King’s coll. of Aberdeen 1797 to death, and sub-principal 1817 to death; proprietor of the island of Eigg, Invernessshire. d. Old Aberdeen 12 March 1854.
MACPHERSON, Sir James Duncan (brother of Sir H. T. Macpherson 1827–86). b. 1811; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen; ensign Bengal army 4 Dec. 1828; brigade major during Punjaub campaign 1848–49; military sec. to government of the Punjaub 1852–8; commanded Agra brigade 20 Aug. 1862; commissary general of Bengal army 5 March 1864 to 22 July 1869; M.G. 24 Jany. 1867; C.B. 27 July 1858, K.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. 31 Belsize park gardens, London 29 May 1874. I.L.N. lxiv 547 (1874).
M’PHERSON, John. b. Blairnamarrow, Strathavon, Lanarkshire 29 Aug. 1801; in Paris from 1818 where he was ordained a R.C. priest 9 June 1827; professor at Aquhorties coll. Scotland 1827–32; priest of the Meadows ch. Dundee 1832, erected St. Andrew’s ch. in the Nethergate where he remained to 1847; president of Blair coll. for training the priesthood 1847–58; created D.D. at Rome 1857; vicar general of the district 1858–61; priest at New abbey 1861, and at Perth 1864–9 where he founded a convent for ladies teaching the schools and visiting the prisons; priest of St. Mary’s, Dundee 1869 to death. d. Dundee 16 July 1871. W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 366.
MACPHERSON, John (son of Hugh Macpherson, professor of Greek in univ. of Aberdeen 1768–1854). b. Old Aberdeen 1817; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and univ., M.A., hon. M.D. 1845; studied medicine in London, Bonn, Vienna and Berlin; M.R.C.S. Oct. 1839; surgeon H.E.I.C.S. 1840–64; civil surgeon of Howrah near Calcutta 1843–6; assist. surgeon European general hospital, Calcutta 1846; presidency surgeon and superintendent general of vaccination to 1864; retired 1864 after 24 years of service without taking any furlough; in practice 35 Curzon st. London 1864 to 1890; made a fine collection of engravings; with J. Mc Clelland conducted The Calcutta journal of natural history, vols. 6–8, 1841; author of The mineral waters of India. Calcutta 1854; Cholera in its home 1866; The baths and wells of Europe 1869, 3 ed. 1888; Our baths and wells, the mineral waters of the British islands 1871; Annals of cholera from the earliest periods 1884. d. 35 Curzon st. London 17 March 1890. I.L.N. 5 April 1890 p. 419, portrait; Pictorial World 27 March 1890 pp. 399, 408, portrait.
MACPHERSON, Philip. b. 1790; ensign 43 foot 2 Nov. 1809; aide de camp and military sec. to sir Charles James Napier in the operations in Scinde; captain 17 foot 26 Nov. 1829, lieut.-col. 3 Dec. 1852 to 7 Sep. 1855; C.B. 4 July 1843; commanded 1 brigade of 4 division in the Crimea 18 Dec. 1854 to 15 June 1855; M.G. 24 Dec. 1858; colonel 13 foot 15 Aug. 1863 to death. d. Clifton, York 2 Feb. 1864. T. Carter’s Historical record of thirteenth light infantry (1867) p. 194.
MACPHERSON, Robert Barclay. b. 1775; ensign 88 foot 3 June 1795, major 17 March 1808 to 28 Nov. 1816 when placed on h.p.; colonel 73 foot 29 July 1852 to 11 Feb. 1857; colonel 88 foot 11 Feb. 1857 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.H. 1835. d. Viewfield lodge, Stirling 23 Dec. 1858.
MACPHERSON, Samuel Charters (brother of John Macpherson 1817–90). b. King’s college, Old Aberdeen 7 Jany. 1806; studied at college of Edinb. 1822–3 and at Trin. coll. Camb. 1823–5; ensign 8 Madras N.I. 28 Feb. 1827, captain 18 Jany. 1845 to death; principal assistant to the collector and agent in Gangam 1842–5; conquered the Gumsur Khond county by the use of moral influences 1842–4; governor general’s agent for suppression of Meriah or human sacrifice and female infanticide in hill tracts of Orissa, Nov. 1845, but was superseded 1847; agent at Benares, Aug. 1853, agent at Bhopal 1853; political agent at Gwalior, capital of Scindhia 13 June 1854 to death; brevet major 20 June 1854; gazetted C.B. 18 May 1860 after his death; author of Account of the religion of the Khonds in Orissa 1852. d. in his brother’s house at Calcutta 15 April 1860. Memorials of service in India from the correspondence of major S. C. Macpherson. Ed. by W. Macpherson (1865), portrait.