OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 40, 16 August 1937, Page 9

OBITUARY

LORD STRATHCARRON

(Received August 16, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, August 15.

The death has occurred of Lord Strathcarron. He ■ collapsed while lunching at a restaurant.

Lord Strathcarron, formerly Sir lan Macpherson, was born in 1880. He was a Privy Councillor from the last year of the Great War and was created a baronet in 1933. : It was not long after he left the University that he entered Parliament, and soon received recognition. His first Parliamentary work was as private secretary to the Secretary of War, and later he became Undersecretary of War, serving under Lord Kitchener and Mr. Lloyd George during the whole period of the Great War. From 1918, for two years, he was Chief Secretary for Ireland, and made history by introducing the last of the Home Rule Bills. During the turbu-

lent days of the Irish revolution he was in considerable danger of assassination, and a plot to kidnap him was only frustrated at the last moment. But for the turn of political fortunes of the Liberal Party, Mr. Macpherson would probably have been a Governor of one of the Dominions. He was one of thj Liberals to join the Government in 1931. Member of Parliament for Ross and Cromarty from 1911 to 1936, he was Recorder of Scotland in 1921, and has also filled the positions of Vice-President of the Army Council, etc., and was a Bencher of the Inner Temple, London. He has written several books; chief among them, perhaps, are his "Life at a Scottish University" and his "Satire in Celtic History." He was not the only member of his family to achieve fame. , An elder brother—now deadafter a distinguished career at the Bar, became a brilliant Judge in India. A younger brother has played for Scotland on several occasions in international Rugby. Each in turn has honourably upheld the high traditions of that parent stock from which all Macphersons spring, the stock of Gilli Chattan Mor, Maomore... of Moray, and father-in-law to the daughter of Lulach, the last of a line of Scottish Kings.