North - Medical Officer IBEA Co. at Mombasa - From Brackley, Manchester; Company appt. 12/2/1889; arr. Kampala from coast 31/1/1890; dep. Kampala for Bunyoro & Toro 8/4/1891; left in charge of Fort George at Kavalli by Capt. F. Lugard 27/7/1891, returned Kampala 31/12/1891. arr. Kikuyu on way to coast from Uganda ill, 19/12/1892, arr. Mombasa 27/1/1893; Appt. Med. Officer UP 22/11/1895; dep. Zanzibar for Mombasa & Eldama Ravine 11/1/1896; Medical Officer at Ravine, joined teh Maj. J.R.L. Macdonald "Jubaland" expedition to the Upper Nile 16/9/1897; wounded at Luba's during Sudanese mutiny 19/10/1897; due to dep. Zanzibar on leave 28/7/1898; Asst. Med. Officer UP and on leave May 1901; transferred from Fort Ternan to Masaka May 1902; arr. Mombasa from Buddu via Fort Ternan 30/9/1902 & dep. for England, resigned; end of appt. 26/10/1902; 'Quarrelsome and overbearing …. Doctors Waters, McCulloch and Macpherson …. the trio of drunken garrulous doctors' (F.J. Jackson, FO 2).

Debrett - employed as Med. Officer in East and Central Africa for many years; served during Soudanese Mutiny in Uganda 1898 (wounded); discovered antidote for poisoned arrow wounds; is Major Canadian Army Med. Corps (Reserve of Officers)

IBEA Co. - Nominal List of British Born Subjects resident in IBEA Territories outside the Sultan's Domain, 30 April 1891 - Dr. J.P. Macpherson, Scotland, With Sudanese troops

Carman - The first doctor appointed to the Chartered Company was Dr. A. Mackinnon who arrived in 1888 to be joined in the following year by Dr. I.S. Macpherson

Uganda Journal - Vol. 2 No. 2 - Further Memories of Uganda by Sir Albert Cook - launch 'Ruwenzori' - When Dr. Macpherson and I [Cook] in November 1897 brought Mr Jackson (as he was then) into Munyonyo from Luba's with a severe bullet wound in his lung, we found the little steamer most useful, and I shall never forget the 8 hours steaming through the night, the lovely coast of Kyagwe lying half-concealed and half-revealed under the light of the nearly full moon. To the wounded man it was heaven instead of the other place, which would have been involved in porterage or canoe travelling, so peace be with its remains.

Uganda Journal - Vol 23, p.146 - Captain Smith's Expedition to Lake Victoria - 1889-92 with IBEA Company; accompanied Lugard to Lake Albert in 1891; 1895-1902 medical officer with Uganda Government.

Uganda Journal - Vol 25, p.84 - 1889-92 medical officer with IBEA Company; 1891 with Lugard on march to Lake Albert; 1895-1902 medical officer, Uganda Protectorate; 1897 gallantly attended wounded under fire at Luba's Fort and himself twice wounded; later principal medical officer, British North Borneo.

Web - 1919 - Court case regarding custody of his daughter who had lived with mother's relatives in Australia since the age of 3. Dr. Macpherson eventually won custody but his daughter was mysteriously secreted by her Australian relatives to avoid her being taken to Canada where her father was living with his second wife and 2 children.

Lord Lugard, writing in "The Times," London recently paid a striking tribute to the late Dr James Simpson Macpherson, who died at Mosman on June 2 last. Dr Macpherson, he said, was one of the little group despatched by the Imperial British East African (Chartered) Company in 1890 91 to make the treaty by which the Kabaka and Chiefs of Uganda placed their country under British protection. Dr Macpherson  also accompanied him on the expedition to the Albert Lake to bring under control the Sudanese soldiery left behind bv Stanley and Emin. Dr acpherson's invariable equanimity and good-humoured indifference to the hazards of those difficult times, his devotion to his medical duties, his readiness to help in any capacity, and his personal charm had endeared him to his comrades.