Modern English biography

MACPHERSON, DUNCAN (1 son of Cluny Macpherson 1804–85). _b._ 9 March 1833; ensign 42 foot 25 June 1852, lieut.-col. 29 Sep. 1877, placed on h.p. 10 Jany. 1883; brevet col. 1 April 1879; served in Indian mutiny and in Ashantee war; wounded at battle of Amodful; C.B. 31 March 1874; granted service reward 13 Sep. 1882; chief of the clan Macpherson 1885 to death. _d._ Cluny castle, Kingussie 3 Oct. 1886. 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.