John Macpherson

Sir John Macpherson was born in Dores, Inverness-shire, in 1857. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1882 and became Assistant Physician at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum. He was admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1890 and elected a Fellow in 1891. From 1889 to 1898 he was Superintendent of the Stirling District Asylum at Larbert, later known as Bellsdyke Hospital. He subsequently served as Commissioner of Lunacy for Scotland until 1921 and worked on several medical boards concerned with former servicemen. He was knighted in 1922 and later that year became the first Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sydney. He returned to Britain in 1926 and retired in Somerset.