Ian Macpherson, 3rd Baron Strathcarron

Ian David Patrick Macpherson, 3rd Baron Strathcarron (born 31 March 1949), is a British hereditary peer and member of House of Lords. He is also the baronet Sir Ian David Patrick Macpherson of Drumalban.[1] He inherited the titles on the death of his father David Macpherson, 2nd Baron Strathcarron, on 31 August 2006.[2]

The Right Honourable
  • The Lord Strathcarron
Official portrait, 2022
Member of the House of Lords
as an elected hereditary peer
18 February 2022
By-election18 February 2022
Preceded byThe 5th Viscount Ridley
Personal details
Born
Ian David Patrick Macpherson

(1949-03-31) 31 March 1949
London, England
Political partyConservative
SpouseGillian Rosamund Allison
Children2
Parent(s)David Macpherson, 2nd Baron Strathcarron

Education

Lord Strathcarron's early education was at Hill House School, before attending Horris Hill and then Eton College; after Eton, he went to Grenoble University.

Personal life

Lord Strathcarron married the former Gillian Rosamund Allison (born 15 September 1946) in 1974 and they have two children, the Honourable Sophie Ananda Macpherson (born 14 April 1978) and the Honourable Rory David Alisdair Macpherson (born: 15 April 1982).[3]

Career

Lord Strathcarron spent ten years in the Orient working for Time-Life as a freelance journalist and copywriter. In 1970, he founded the Japan Europa Press Agency in Tokyo and sold it in 1995.

He became a partner in Strathcarron & Company[4] in 1974, and a founder and Director of Global Alliance Automotive Ltd, a transnational version of Strathcarron & Company in 1993.[5] In 1995, he founded Strathcarron Sports Cars plc,[6] manufacturers of sports/racing cars and since 2006 he has been a trustee and director of the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire.[7]

He is chairman and commissioning editor of Unicorn Publishing House Ltd,[8] a visual arts, cultural history and digital publishing and media distribution company. In 2018, he founded the transmedia production company Affable Media Ltd.[9]

In February 2022, he was elected to replace Viscount Ridley in the House of Lords following Ridley's retirement in December 2021.[10] He took the oath on 21 February 2022.

Media works

Lord Strathcarron is a student of Advaita Vedanta and has written of his experiences in non-duality in the books Living with Life[11] and Mysticism and Bliss.[12] He is also the author of two spy thriller novels for Troubador: Invisibility, and Black Beach.[13]

In 2009, he recreated Lord Byron's 1809–1811 Grand Tour of the Mediterranean for the book Joy Unconfined! Lord Byron's Grand Tour Re-Toured published by Signal Books,[14] an imprint of Christopher Hurst.

In 2010, he completed the first part of a Mark Twain travel trilogy based on Twain's 1867 tour of the Holy Land, resulting in the book Innocence & War: Mark Twain's Holy Land Revisited published in 2012 in the US by Dover Publications and in the UK by Signal Books. The second part of the trilogy, recreating Mark Twain's 1896 lecture tour of India for the book The Indian Equator; Mark Twain's India Revisited published in 2014 in the US by Dover Publications[15] and in the UK by Signal Books.[16] The final part of the trilogy, Heart of Lightness, Mark Twain's Mississippi Revisited, will be about Mark Twain's final steamboat journey up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Hannibal, Missouri and his subsequent short career in the American Civil War.

In 2016, Unicorn Press published his biography of Sir Francis Chichester, Never Fear: Reliving the Life of Sir Francis Chichester.[17]

In 2017, Unicorn Press published his art book about the painter Sophie Walbeoffe, Painting with Both Hands.[18]

In 2018, Affable Media published his fictional biography, Crikey! How Did That Happen? The Refreshingly Unauthorised Biography of Sir Bertram Wooster, KG.[19]

In 2019, Affable Media produced his video, Confessions of a Publisher: It Doesn't Have To Be Like This, But Somehow It Just Is.[20]

In 2020, Unicorn published his spiritual abstract art book Truth and Beauty: The Art of Sophie Chang.[21]

In 2021, Affable Media published his historical fiction title A Case of Royal Blackmail by Sherlock Holmes.[22]

In 2022, he wrote and produced the short film Undead and Alive, a zombie/witch romcom.[23]

In 2023, Affable Media published his satirical play Nigel Moelsworth’s Cynical Tendency.[24]

Interests and hobbies

An ex-Yachtmaster Instructor, Lord Strathcarron is an Honorary Life Member of the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, a member of the Royal Cruising Club[25] and the Royal Yacht Squadron (see List of Royal Yacht Squadron members), and Commodore of the House of Lords Yacht Club.[26]

In 2012, he qualified as a civil and commercial mediator with the Civil Mediation Council.[27] In 2013, he qualified as a Restorative Justice practitioner, registered with the Restorative Justice Council.[28] He is also the vice-chair and a trustee of The Society of Mediators.[29]

Arms
Coat of arms of Ian Macpherson, 3rd Baron Strathcarron
Crest
A cat-a-mountain sejant guardant having its dexter paw raised Proper.
Escutcheon
Per fess Or and Azure a galley of the first masts oars and tacking Proper flagged Gules in the dexter chief point a hand couped fesswise holding a dagger palewise and in the sinister a cross crosslet fitchee of the last over all a fess chequy of the second and Argent.
Supporters
Dexter a private soldier of the Cameron Highlanders in full service dress of the period 1916-18 sinister a Macpherson clansman of the period of 1745.
Motto
Le Cridhe's Le Cliu[30]

See also

References
  1. Standing Council of the Baronetage
  2. "Lord Strathcarron". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023.
  3. Byam Shaw, Ros (April 2018). "Made for the Job". House and Garden: 115–122.
  4. "SUPPORTING INTERNATIONAL SUPPLIERS TO THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY – Automotive Supplier Support and Lead Generation". Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  5. (GAA), GLOBAL ALLIANCE AUTOMOTIVE Ltd. "Global Alliance Automotive". www.ga-automotive.com. Archived from the original on 17 August 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  6. Strathcarron SC-5A – Car News at Car and Driver
  7. http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/ShowCharity/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1107656&SubsidiaryNumber=0&TID=2381164 Director and Trustee
  8. "Companies House WebCHeck". Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  9. "AFFABLE MEDIA Ltd people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK".
  10. "Conservative hereditary peers' by-election, February 2022: result" (PDF). parliament.uk. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  11. Ian Strathcarron (23 August 2012). "Smashwords – Living with Life – a book by Ian Strathcarron". Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  12. "MYSTICISM AND BLISS by Ian Strathcarron on iBooks". iTunes. Archived from the original on 14 February 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  13. "Ian Macpherson 3rd Baron Strathcarron – Isle of Wight Literary Festival". Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  14. "Signal Books | Joy Unconfined!". www.signalbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  15. "Client List". Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  16. "Signal Books | The Indian Equator". www.signalbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  17. "unicornpress". www.unicornpress.org. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  18. "Unicornpress".
  19. Strathcarron, Ian (September 2018). Crikey! How Did That Happen?: The Refreshingly Unauthorised Biography of Sir Bertram Wooster, KG. ISBN 978-1-78926-295-7.
  20. "Confessions of a Publisher – YouTube". YouTube. 5 May 2019. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
  21. Strathcarron, Ian; Chang, Sophie (31 May 2020). Truth and Beauty Art of Sophie Chang. ISBN 978-1-91269-097-8.
  22. Strathcarron, Ian (2021). A Case of Royal Blackmail by Sherlock Holmes. Affable Media. ISBN 978-1-91349-142-0.
  23. Chattan, Bruce (director); Strathcarron, Ian (writer); Strathcarron, Ian (producer) (2022). Undead and Alive (short film). FilmFreeway.
  24. Strathcarron, Ian (202s). Nigel Moelsworth’s Cynical Tendency. Affable Media. ISBN 978-1-911397-71-7.
  25. "Royal Cruising Club". Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  26. "MPs and Lords/Lord Stratcarron/Registered Interests". Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  27. "Directory of CMS Members". Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  28. "Restorative Justice Council | Promoting quality restorative practice for everyone".
  29. "The Panel of Mediators – Society of Mediators". Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  30. Burke's Peerage. 1956.
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