Ian Macpherson, 3rd Baron Strathcarron

Ian David Patrick Macpherson, 3rd Baron Strathcarron, (born 31 March 1949 in London, England) is a British peer, Baron Strathcarron of Banchor[1] and inherited the title on the death of his father David William Anthony Blyth Macpherson, 2nd Baron Strathcarron on 31 August 2006 [2]

After education at Hill House School, Horris Hill, Eton College, Hollingbourne Manor and Grenoble University, Lord Strathcarron spent ten years in the Orient working for Time-Life and as a freelance journalist and copywriter. In 1970 he founded Japan Europa Press Agency in Tokyo and sold it in London in 2006.

He became a Partner in Strathcarron & Company [3] in 1974, and a founder and Director of Global Alliance Automotive Ltd, a transnational version of Strathcarron & Company in 1993.[4] In 1995 he founded Strathcarron Sports Cars plc [5] manufacturers of sports/racing cars and since 2006 he has been a trustee [6] and director of the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire .

He is chairman of Unicorn Press Group,[7] a cultural and military history publishing company, chairman of Sophie Macpherson Ltd,[8] a fine arts recruitment company, chairman of Play Associates Ltd.,[9] an interior design company, and a director of Art World Alliance Ltd.,[10] a grouping of UK art industry companies.

He is a student of Advaita Vedanta with Rupert Spira. He is an Unitive personal development coach and has written of his experiences in transpersonal counselling in the e-book "Living with Life".[11]

In 2005 he qualified as a Yachtmaster Instructor. He is a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron and Royal Cruising Club.

In 2012 he qualified as a civil and commercial mediator with the Civil Mediation Council [12] and has his own mediation practice Mediation Process LLP.[13] In 2013 he qualified as a Restorative Justice practitioner, registered with the Restorative Justice Council.[14] He is a director of ArtResolve Ltd,[15] a cultural property mediation panel and a trustee of The Society of Mediators [16]

He is the author of two spy thriller novels for Troubador: "Invisibility",[17] and "Black Beach".[18]

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,[19] 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", to be 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'[20] [21] [22] will also be published by in the US by Dover Publications[23] and in the UK by Signal Books, due 2013. 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.

He is currently writing the biography of Sir Francis Chichester.

He 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).

References

  1. ↑ http://www.hereditarypeers.com/members
  2. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1528601/Lord-Strathcarron.html.
  3. ↑ http://www.strathcarron.com
  4. ↑ https://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/54017369f450f2ef35b59d1f69075cbe/docdwnld
  5. ↑ Strathcarron SC-5A - Car News at Car and Driver
  6. ↑ http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/ShowCharity/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1107656&SubsidiaryNumber=0&TID=2381164 Director and Trustee
  7. ↑ http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/03665bd78a86bf366dbc02f33264b5ce/companysearch?disp=1&frfsh=1324899118#result
  8. ↑ https://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/9cf050e827d144a0b84a606fab92cfb0/docdwnld
  9. ↑ https://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/50733901baa95d574a8ba8f798833a2c/docdwnld
  10. ↑ http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/03665bd78a86bf366dbc02f33264b5ce/companysearch?disp=1&frfsh=1324899335#result
  11. ↑ https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/218556
  12. ↑ http://www.civilmediation.org/member/strathcarron-lord/387/
  13. ↑ http://www.publishers.org.uk/index.php?option=com_jw_joomlaship&task=showAffiliateEntry&id=151&limitstart=0&limit=0&Itemid=1457
  14. ↑ http://www.restorativejustice.org.uk/?p=practitioners&filter=organisation&search=Mediation+Process
  15. ↑ http://www.companysearchesmadesimple.com/company/uk/08974759/artresolve
  16. ↑ http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/find-charities
  17. ↑ http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=277
  18. ↑ http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=378
  19. ↑ http://www.signalbooks.co.uk/book.php?a=1904955746
  20. ↑ http://www.intravelmag.com/interview/624-in-the-footsteps-of-mark-twain-an-interview-with-lord-strathcarron
  21. ↑ http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/when-twain-came-to-malabar-hill/981708.html
  22. ↑ http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-02-27/kolkata/28638008_1_book-gama-journey
  23. ↑ http://www.dystel.com/client-list/#s

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