William Macpherson

Major General Sir William Grant Macpherson, (27 January 1858 – 15 October 1927) was the colonel-commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and the author of its official history. Early life Macpherson, the 3rd son of the Rev. William Macpherson, was born in 1858 at the Manse of Kilmuir Easter in Ross-shire, Scotland. He received his education at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in classics in 1879; M.B., C.M. in 1882. While at Edinburgh he was a boxing champion and a talented gymnast. With the aid of a scholarship he then further studied at Tübingen & Leipzig in Germany, in medicine, German and logic. Military career