Ian Macpherson, 1st Baron Strathcarron
- Ian Macpherson, 1st Baron Strathcarron
James Ian Macpherson, 1st Baron Strathcarron PC, KC (May 14, 1880-August 14, 1937) was a British lawyer and Liberal politician.
The son of James Macpherson, JP, of Inverness, Macpherson sat as a Member of Parliament for Ross and Cromarty from 1911 to 1935. In 1916 he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for War, a post he held until 1918, and then served as Deputy Secretary of State for War and Vice-President of the Army Council from 1918 to 1919, as Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1919 to 1920 and as Minister of Pensions from 1920 to 1922. Macpherson was admitted to the Privy Council in 1918, created a Baronet, of Banchor in the County of Inverness, in 1933 and raised to the peerage as Baron Strathcarron, of Banchor in the County of Inverness, in 1935.
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