Researching William Macpherson
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The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
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Some Famous People called William Macpherson
William MacPherson (priest)
William Stuart MacPherson (30 September 1901 – 7 July 1978) was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the 20th century.
He was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, the fourth of five sons of Henry MacPherson, an electrical engineer, and Lilly Hallewell MacPherson. He also had a younger sister, Eileen. His brother Alfred Sinclair MacPherson married writer Margaret Kendall while his brother Henry Douglas MacPherson was killed in the First World War. He was educated at Sedbergh and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1932 he began his career with a curacy at Richmond, Yorkshire after which he was a Minor Canon at Ripon Cathedral. When World War II came he was a chaplain in the RNVR. Later he was Rector then Archdeacon of Richmond. In 1954, he was appointed Dean of Lichfield, a post he held for 15 years.
He died in Honiton, Devon, aged 76.
Source: William MacPherson (priest), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWilliam Macpherson (bureaucrat)
William Macpherson of Blairgowrie (26 August 1784 - 13 March 1866), a Deputy Lieutenant of Perthshire, Scotland, Clerk of the New South Wales Legislative Council, was born in Barrackpore, India. He was the eldest son of Colonel Allan Macpherson, who was at that time on duty in the Bengal establishment of the East India Company's services, and Eliza Dell, née Fraser.
Macpherson, together with his wife and son, Allan, went to Sydney, Australia in 1829 where he took up the position of Collector of Internal Revenue in New South Wales.
He held several other senior positions in the New South Wales public service and retired in 1859 as Clerk of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
His son, Allan Macpherson, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and represented the Electoral district of Central Cumberland from 1863 to 1868.
William Macpherson died in Sydney on 13 March 1866.
Source: William Macpherson (bureaucrat), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWilliam Macpherson (cricketer)
William Douglas Lawson Macpherson (15 May 1841 – 24 February 1920) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1870 to 1871 for Gloucestershire, and a school administrator. He was a right-handed batsman and an occasional wicket-keeper who made 3 first-class career appearances.
In 1864, Macpherson was appointed Secretary (also sometimes serving as Treasurer) of the Council of Clifton College, Bristol, and lived at Clifton.His sons- K. D. W. Macpherson (a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy), A. G. Macpherson (a schoolmaster at Newton Abbot College), and C. G. Macpherson (a solicitor)- were educated at Clifton College.
Source: William Macpherson (cricketer), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWilliam Macpherson (judge)
Sir William Alan Macpherson of Cluny, 6th of Blairgowrie (1 April 1926 – 14 February 2021) was a judge of the High Court of England and Wales, and the 27th Hereditary Chief of Clan Macpherson. He was a common law barrister who served as the recorder of the Crown Court, a judge at the Queen's Bench, and the presiding judge of the Northern Circuit, before his retirement in 1996. In the late 1990s, Macpherson led the public inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence. His report at the end of the enquiry in 1999 was considered groundbreaking and described as one of the most significant moments in the history of UK criminal justice.
He had also served as the commanding officer and later as an honorary colonel of the 21st Special Air Service Regiment of the British Territorial Army, and had been the president of the Highland Society of London and the London Scottish Rugby Football Club.
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