Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Living

Sex: M

Spouses and Children

1. Living Children: 1. Living

Archibald Hugh Robert Macpherson

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1864 ⁵⁵⁷ Christening: Death: Cir 1921 - ( about age 57) ⁵⁵⁷ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Occupation: manager of Royal Stores, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Peter Macpherson ⁵⁵⁷ Mother: Susannah Euphemia Campbell ⁹⁷ ^,557

Campbell Macpherson

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1851 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁵⁵⁷ Christening: Death: Cir 1908 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( about age 57) ⁵⁵⁷ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Occupation: Manager of Royal Stores, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Property: Sale to Campbell Macpherson of property Topsail Rd. as Administrix of Thomas G. Morry, 29 Dec 1882, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Party)
• Alt. Death: Cir 1902.

Parents

Father: Peter Macpherson ⁵⁵⁷ Mother: Susannah Euphemia Campbell ⁹⁷ ^,557

Spouses and Children

1. *Emma Duder ⁵⁵⁷ ^,2769 Marriage: 13 Jun 1878 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁰
Marriage Events
• Minister/Priest: G. J. Boyd, 13 Jun 1878, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Children: 1. Lt. Col., Dr. Cluny Macpherson CMG 2. Violette Macpherson 3. Eva Macpherson 4. Harold Macpherson

Notes
General:

From Kirby family website:

Posted By: Paul Kirby

Date Posted: Nov 27, 2001

Description: Son of Peter and Susanna Campbell Macpherson, and father to Cluny, Harvey, and Eva.

Campbell Macpherson- [3167] Born: 1851 Died: 1908

1851 "Campbell Macpherson (1851- 1908) married Emma Duder, daughter of Henry John Duder and Jane Sophia Pitts who was a granddaughter of Joseph Pitts of Bell Island (born circa 1735), from Exeter. Joseph Pitts' son John was the father of James; Mrs. Coyell; Mrs. Cowan; Mary (Mrs. Thomas Ebsary); Mrs. Knight and Jane Sophia (Mrs. Henry J. Duder). "And They Stayed" by Margaret Mullins Families of St. John's: Barbara Pederson Marriage Information: Campbell married Emma Duder-[3166] [MRIN:1138], daughter of Henry John Duder- [3165] and Jane Sophia Pitts-[3164].

010115:
In his book Into the Blizzard, Michale Winter notes that Campbell MacPherson was the co-owner of Royal Stores along with his brother (who he does not name but presumably Archibald) andWilliam Jobs. One of the subsidiary companies of Royal Stores was Riverside Woolen Mills of Makinsons, Conception Bay. Riverside manufactured the woolen uniforms worn initially by the Royal Newfoundland Regiment.

Hon. Campbell Leonard Macpherson OBE

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1907 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Christening: Death: Cir 1973 - ( about age 66) ⁶³⁴⁹ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Honors: OBE to NEWFOUNDLAND (OBE), 26 Mar 1949, London, Greater London, England. Civil ADC to Governor/Svc to Religion & Health.
• Occupation: Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland, 1957-1963, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: President of family business, Royal Stores, 1965, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Lt. Col., Dr. Cluny Macpherson CMG ⁵⁵⁷ Mother: Dame Eleanora Barbara Macleod Thompson OBE ¹⁷²

Lt. Col., Dr. Cluny Macpherson CMG

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 18 Mar 1879 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁶³⁴⁹ Christening: Death: 16 Nov 1966 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 87) ⁶³⁴⁹ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: Cir 1879, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Graduation: McGill Medical School, MD, 1897-1901, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
• Membership: Inducted as a member of the St. John's Lodge, Freemasons, 7 Jun 1907, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Cluny Macpherson
in the England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921

England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921
Name:Cluny Macpherson
Gender:Male
Initiation Date:1907
First Payment Year on Register:1910
Year Range:1910-1921
Lodge:St. John's Lodge
Lodge Location:Newfoundland
Lodge Number:579
Folio Number:205

AND

Cluney Macpherson
in the England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921
England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921
Name:Cluney Macpherson
Gender:Male
Initiation Age:28
Birth Year:abt 1879
Initiation Date:7 Jun 1907
First Payment Year on Register:1908
Year Range:1887-1909
Profession:Physician
Lodge:St. John's Lodge
Lodge Location:St John's New Foundland
Lodge Number:579
Folio Number:227.
• Occupation: Physician, 7 Jun 1907, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Interesting: Creditted with invention of first gas mask used by British soldiers, Cir 1915, France.
• Military: Major; Principal Medical Officer, 1st Newfoundland Regiment, Between Mar 1915 and 9 Sep 1919.
• Alt. Death: Jun 1966, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Honors: appointed a Knight of the British Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1913 and a Knight of Justice in 1955, Wallasey, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England.
• Residence: Calvert House, 65 Rennie's Mill Road, Bef 16 Nov 1966, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Campbell Macpherson ⁵⁵⁷ Mother: Emma Duder ⁵⁵⁷ ^,2769

Spouses and Children

1. *Dame Eleanora Barbara Macleod Thompson OBE ¹⁷² Marriage: 16 Sep 1902 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷²
Marriage Events
• Alt. Marriage: 1902, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Children: 1. Emma Allison Macpherson 2. Hon. Campbell Leonard Macpherson OBE

Notes
General:

181211: Credited with the invention of the gas mask.

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061114 from The Rooms website concerning an exhibit they have at this time:

Dr. Cluny Macpherson is best known for developing the gas mask in the First World War, but following the war he served as a leading doctor in the St. John's medical community. He was also known for tireless volunteer work and commitment to organizations including St. John Ambulance and the Red Cross. This exhibit showcases items recently acquired by The Rooms, exploring both his medical practice and volunteer work.

Lillias Torrance (L.T.) Newton, Portrait of Dr. Cluny Macpherson (1879-1966), c. 1955, oil on canvas.
91.5cm x 71cm. The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery Collection, gift of Cluny and Dawne Macpherson.

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061114 from website of Memorial University Medical School:

Biographical Sketch
Cluny Macpherson (1879-1966), physician and soldier, was born 18 March 1879 in St. John's, Newfoundland, one of two sons (one brother, Harold) born to Campbell Macpherson and Emma Duder. He completed his early schooling at Methodist College in St. John's and then continued his education at McGill University in Montréal. There, Macpherson earned his degree in Medicine (1897-1901), and at the same time volunteered with the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, of which the Newfoundland Branch came to be known as the Grenfell Mission. Upon graduation from McGill, Dr. Macpherson began his medical career at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

In the following year Dr. Macpherson returned to Newfoundland to join Dr. Wilfred Grenfell's Labrador Mission, and was placed in charge of the hospital in Battle Harbour, Labrador. He also served as magistrate for the area. Dr. Macpherson remained there until 1904, when he returned to St. John's to begin private practice. Dr. Macpherson also received government commissions during this time, such as in 1909 when he went to the southwest coast to fight a smallpox epidemic. Dr. Macpherson also continued his involvement with the International Grenfell Association (IGA), eventually serving as a director of both the IGA and the Grenfell Association, Newfoundland. He also played a key role in the development, structuring and operation of the Seamen's Institute (later called the King George V Institute), another Grenfell project.

Dr. Macpherson was involved with the St. John Ambulance Association, which led to the creation of the St. John Ambulance Brigade with three divisions in St. John's. When World War I broke out, members of the Ambulance Brigade enlisted in the Newfoundland Regiment. Macpherson organized these people into an Ambulance Unit, which continued throughout the war. Macpherson himself enlisted on 21 September 1914, at the rank of captain (the same year that he became a director of the family business, The Royal Stores). He was appointed Principal Medical Officer, 1st Newfoundland Regiment, went overseas in March 1915 and later appointed Major on 7 August 1915. He served in France, Belgium, Egypt, Salonica and was eventually transferred to Gallipoli where he acted as an advisor on poisonous gas, which the Allies feared Germany was about to use there. He used a German helmet taken from a captured prisoner to fashion a canvas hood with transparent eyepieces that was treated with chlorine-absorbing chemicals. In doing so, he invented the gas mask, predecessor to those now used by millions of military troops around the world.
Following injury in Egypt, Macpherson returned to Newfoundland, October 1916, and served as Director of Medical Services for the Militia. He was appointed a member of the first War Office Committee on poisonous gases, and also director of medical services for Newfoundland during World War I. He was demobilized on 9 September 1919 at the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Dr. Macpherson played a continual role in the medical profession in capacities such as President of the St. John's Clinical Society and the Newfoundland Medical Association. He was vice-president of the Newfoundland St. John Ambulance Association in 1937, and later became assistant commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade overseas. He was Chairman of the Commissioners-In-Lunacy, which instituted periodic inspections and an appeal mechanism for patients at the Lunatic Asylum (now the Waterford Hospital). Dr. Macpherson was also the Registrar of the Newfoundland Medical Board. After Confederation with Canada (1949), he became a member of the Medical Council of Canada (1949 onwards) and from 1954 to 1955 he was the second Newfoundlander to serve as President, the first being the founder of the council itself, Sir Thomas Roddick, who was born in Harbour Grace in 1846. Dr. Macpherson was also Honorary President of the St. John Ambulance Association during World War II.

Cluny Macpherson received many honours and awards in his lifetime. He was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (1918); Honorary President of the Newfoundland Council of the St. John Ambulance (1953); Honorary Vice-President of the Newfoundland Council of Canadian Red Cross (1953); member of the Medical Council of Canada (President 1954-1955); elected a Fellow of the British Royal College of Surgeons (1955); invested as a Knight of Justice of the Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem (1955) (reclassification of Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, 1913); elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (14 January 1957); and was awarded an honorary degree by Memorial University (1962). He was also Honorary President of the Clan Macpherson Association of Canada and Honorary Vice-President of the parent association.
In 1902, Dr. Macpherson married Eleanora Barbara Thompson (O.B.E., Dame of Order of St. John of Jerusalem, died 1964), daughter of William Macleod Thompson, Northumberland County, Ontario. They had two children, Emma Allison (1903-1971) and Campbell Leonard (1907-1973, Lieutenant-Governor, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1957-1963). Dr. Macpherson remained in St. John's until his death on 16 November 1966.

This Biographical Sketch is taken from the Finding Aid to the Dr. Cluny Macpherson fonds, COLL-002, Faculty of Medicine Founders' Archive, Memorial University of Newfoundland

010115:
In his book Into the Blizzard, Michael Winter notes has this to say about Cluny MacPherson:

The medical officer Cluny Macpherson, who had witnessed the men's physicals back in St John's, was one of the soldiers riding a camel in one of the photographs near the pyramids. He looks both distinguished and ridiculous on the camel. I knew of Cluny Macpherson because his name is on a plaque on a stone wall outside a house in St John's telling you that he was the inventor of the gas mask. That is not a statement you expect to read while walking down a street in Newfoundland.
Cluny Macpherson had been a doctor with the Grenfell Mission in Labrador when war broke out. He was the eldest son of a St. John's businessman -- Campbell Macpherson. Campbell and his brother owned, with William Job, the Royal Stores in St John's, which were built after the Great Fire of 1892. This was the world Cluny was born into -- hearty conversation, the desire to study, an appetite for work. He had a brother, Harold, five years younger, who, among other things, saved the Newfoundland dog as a breed -- Harold Macpherson's house is near the grounds of Memorial University, nestled in trees. I once bought a bicycle from an elderly man outside this house -- a bicycle I still have. The Macphersons were fixtures at Methodist picnics; they were confident, with no room for doubt and laziness, just belting out talent and having the guts to create good in the world. That's what growing up proud with a strong moneyed family in a capital city of a great little nation can do for you.
The Royal Stores owned Riverside Woolen Mills, which operated in Makinsons out of Conception Bay -- a community I've passed many a time. It was Riverside which made the Newfoundland Regiment's uniforms with wool from local sheep. When we bought our little summer house, we found a pink blanket on a bed that was made by Riverside. Its logo: the Newfoundland dog.
Before the war, Cluny Macpherson worked with Labrador doctors like Wilfred Grenfell and Harry Paddon and Arthur Wakefield. After the war started, Macpherson was picked by George Nasmith, the Acting Medical Officer of Health for Toronto, to help in France with the development of the gas mask. A German prisoner had been found carrying a pad of cotton waste done up in some veiling, similar to the mask worn by surgeons and nurses in the operating room. The cotton was impregnated with a solution of sodium hyposulphite and washing soda. The Germans were trying to race for the Channel ports by using gas. The shell with gas would explode and the con- tents would enter the eye and make the eye wet. These were called lachrymatory shells. The word "lachrymatory" used to be associated with glass vessels that were filled with tears and bottled. The Greeks had these jars a thousand years before Christ. And then these canisters of chemicals were volleyed into the British trenches -- gas that caused tears.
The scientists who were brought together to make the mask were called the gasoliers. Macpherson was sent to London for two large cylinders of chlorine. This trip allowed him to conceive of a superior pattern to the German model, where you survived the gas by not moving. You had to hold the contraption in place.
Macpherson bought a couple of yards of Viyella and some mica in London and took them back to Saint-Omer in France. Viyella is a blend of wool and cotton; the name comes from the road where the mill was built, Via Gellia (the road builder, Phillip Gell, claimed Roman descent). Macpherson knew a soldier could breathe through Viyella because he'd used it to cover the heads of patients being transported in winter from Labrador.
The team tried out the German masks in a French field, and two of the scientists had to be taken to hospital, Macpherson cut out his pattern in paper and asked the matron to sew it up for him using the Viyella and a mica window. The next day Colonel Harvey tried on the mask and stood in the chamber for five minutes. Colonel O'Grady tried it, too. The director general of medical services, Arthur Sloggett, declared it was so comfortable a soldier could fight in it.
Cluny Macpherson was shipped back to London and headed up a team to produce the helmet. Tanners complained that the gasoliers' use of hypo, which was also needed in the tanning process, meant no leather for the army. Mica cracked, so it was replaced with photographic film. The film was flammable, but less so if treated with an alkaline solution. Then Macpherson went to a lecture where a type of cellulose used as a dope, or lacquer, on the wings of airplanes was discussed. He got nine rolls of cellulose film donated from Pathé News. It was a thousand yards long and a yard wide. It came in wooden cases which he loaded aboard three cars and drove to Abbeville and on to London aboard a transport truck.
The rolls were mounted on trestles in the Great Hall of St James's Palace. For weeks the place reeked of acetone as women cut the film into sections for helmet windows. A trial lot of a thousand were used in France, and then the team was told to go full speed on the manufacturing. They took over three laundries in London to produce the helmets.
The mask was such a success that the Allies realized the Germans would have to change the chemicals they used from chlorine and sulphur dioxide to phosgene. So an alteration was made because exhaled breath would spoil one of the protective chemicals: an exhaling apparatus was added. The new German ingredient destroyed wool, so flannelette was substituted for the original Viyella. Hexamine was also added to protect against another gas, and the slightly changed helmet with glass eyepieces instead of film was called the PH helmet. This was the one British soldiers used in France.
The gas team went on to produce the box respirator, which used powdered carbon as a filter. Twenty-two million were made before Macpherson was put on other tasks: how to protect soldiers from flame-throwers; and figuring out a means to transport hot food to men at the front (a box inside a box separated with hay). Then Macpherson was sent to Gallipoli as a medical transport officer in Mudros. He got offers to join the engineers as he was a dab hand at manoeuvring hospital boats and wrecking tugs along the peninsula of Gallipoli. He had to board vessels and decide how many patients they could handle. He would roll out blueprints and do his estimation. Forty thousand wounded poured down the Turkish shores onto the ships for treatment. Siegfried Sassoon's brother, Hamo, was one of them -- he died at Gallipoli. The Aragon was nicknamed the "Arrogant" and the "Featherbed" by troops coming down from Gallipoli. Macpherson wrote, "She was reputed to have grounded on a bank formed of empty champagne bottles which had been thrown overboard." A photograph from the time shows a cat wearing a lifejacket made of champagne corks. Eventually the Aragon was torpedoed and sunk off Alexandria. Later Macpherson would say he never worked so hard in his life, and the load was matched only by his time later in St John's, dealing with the influenza epidemic of 1918.
Cluny Macpherson also acted as an advisor on poisonous gas in Turkey. He was charged with building and equipping a redipping station for reconditioning gas helmets after they had been worn in the field. He had done this before in Abbeville and Calais. There was scarce fresh water where he was stationed in Mudros, but there was a condensing plant. Macpherson used a heavy boiler and a sheet iron smokestack and had Egyptian craftsmen working for him. When work got slow he learned a few Egyptian shanties and got the men singing, and the rate of work increased.
In Egypt, the men received letters from home, from family concerned they were so close now to the war. But we are further away now, they wrote back, than we had been in England.
Macpherson strikes me as an intelligent, warm, fast-thinking, generous person who posed as an innocent from the colonies naive on protocol. He loathed red tape and admired a job done effectively and quickly. He suffered migraines and temporary half blindness. He climbed to the roof of the Grace Hospital in St Johns in the middle of winter and took a series of photos of the city to send to a woman whose uncle used to live nearby. He pricked holes with a pin through the photos and wrote on the reverse the names of all the new buildings.
He was injured in Egypt His horse shied from a camel and fell, trapping his ankle and dislocating a joint. He noted there were four other officers in hospital with a similar injury. Fashionable, he said. He was shipped back to Newfoundland to oversee the medical operations there. But his eye travelled both near and far to subjects at hand. The Calypso, which by then was just a salt and coal hulk stationed in the city's harbour, was so successful at training naval reserves, Macpherson wrote, that Newfoundland outnumbered all other dominions combined in supplying men for the navy. He was that kind of guy.
He thought that the failure of combined operations at Gallipoli made it possible for the later success at Normandy during the Second World War. Forces had landed on the peninsula without the Turks knowing much about it, but because the soldiers could not find their equipment on board, they had to reroute to Mudros, sort out this material and land again. And by then the Turks and Germans were ready.

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140615:
Stanley Frost records his thoughts on Dr. Cluny MacPherson in his memoirs:

One of the most distinguished Newfoundlanders who served in World War I was Lieutenant Colonel Cluny Macpherson, CMG. He was commissioned as Captain on the formation of the Newfoundland Regiment and appointed its Chief Medical Officer, with headquarters at St. John's. Dr. Macpherson was a renowned medico before World War I and twice was sent to the Labrador by the Newfoundland Government to suppress smallpox epidemics, serving 1902– 04 as Chief of Dr. Grenfell's Hospital at Battle Harbour. He was born in 1879, son of Campbell Macpherson, founder of Royal Stores, a large merchant house of St. John's. Prior to the war Dr. Macpherson had been head of the St. John Ambulance Detachment of the CLB and was Surgeon Captain of the Methodist Guards Brigade. He was sent to France by the War Office three days after the gas attack by the Germans at Ypres in April 1915. Shortly after, he invented the gas helmet, and was seconded to the War Office laboratories to assist in its development and production. The gas helmet was the forerunner of the box respirator, which served the troops well, with its various improvements and adjustments based on experience in gas attacks. For these services he was awarded the CMG, twice MID, and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. Later he was despatched to several theatres of war, including the Middle East, to advise on gas preventive measures. Following the close of the war, Dr. Macpherson resumed his medical practice in St. John's, became Vice-President of Royal Stores, and was awarded many honours, including Honorary Colonel of Number One Medical Company of Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, Knight of Grace of St. John of Jerusalem, and Chief of Clan Macpherson in Canada. Upon his death in November 1966 at the age of eighty-seven, the Evening Telegram of St. John's carried full-page instalments in four issues covering every phase of his illustrious career. Some years ago I wrote the War Office in London asking them to confirm that Colonel Macpherson was in fact the inventor of the gas mask. Upon searching the records the Minister of Defence replied, substantiating

Frost, Sydney (2014-11-10). A Blue Puttee at War: The Memoir of Captain Sydney Frost, MC (Kindle Locations 1140-1155). Flanker Press. Kindle Edition.

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211218 from MG 281, File 48, Nimshi Crewe's Carter File:

Nfld. Archives
21 August 1964

Dear Doctor MacPherson,

On getting your letter of the 19th about Sir F. B. T. Carter's 1846 marriage to Miss Bailey of Hr. Grace, I felt sure she was one of the family there from whom my friends the late Canon A. G. Bayly, of Bonavista, and his nephew, Philip Bayly Rendell, of St. John's, descend, and rang up the latter to make sure. He told me that was the case, and added that he had given you some details about it. He said that there were three brothers about 1830 here, James Bayly, of Hr. Grace, from whom he is descended (I always knew that the Canon's forebears were of Hr. Grace placement), George Bayly, fahter of Lady Carter, and Robert Bayly, Customs Officer of Trinity, who married a Miss Kelson. The correct spelling of the name is Bayly, by the way. Miss Kelson was a sister of William Kelson, Jr., one of whose two daughters was the wife of George Mews and thus the mother of Arthur Mews and his siblings (wot a word!). A daughter of this Bayly-kelson marriage, Jessie Elizabeth, married in 1866 John Shears (presumably of Openahall, B.B.); perhaps this couple were the direct grandparents of the late Rev. Hugh Kirby and his first cousin, the late Max Shear who died here about a year ago. I have a file on the Carter family which you can see at any time.

Your sincerely,

N. C. Crewe

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090622 from Wikipedia:

Colonel Cluny Macpherson CMG FRCS (March 18, 1879 – November 16, 1966) was a physician and the inventor of an early gas mask.[1] After World War I he served as the president of the St. John's Clinical Society and the Newfoundland Medical Association.

Contents
1Early life
2World War I
3Later life
4Family
5References
6Bibliography
7Further reading
8External links
Early life
Cluny Macpherson was born in St. John's, Newfoundland to Campbell Macpherson and Emma Duder. He had a brother, Harold.[2]

Macpherson received his early education at Methodist College and at the McGill University Faculty of Medicine from 1897– 1901 where he earned his degree in Medicine.[2] He also volunteered with the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, which later became known as the Grenfell Mission. Macpherson began his medical career at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.[2] In 1902 he returned to Newfoundland joining the Labrador Mission begun by Dr. Wilfred Grenfell and ran the hospital in Battle Harbour. Remaining there until 1904. He also served as a special constable and justice of the peace. Macpheron later became a director of the Newfoundland and the International Grenfell Associations.[3] He later helped develop the Seamen's Institute (later called the King George V Institute), another Grenfell project.[2] Returning to St. John's, Macpherson opened a private practice,[2] and eventually became the leading practitioner in Newfoundland.[3]

Macpherson started the first St. John Ambulance Brigade in Newfoundland after working with the St. John Ambulance Association.[2] The Brigade had three divisions in St. John's. When World War I broke out, members enlisted in the Newfoundland Regiment. Macpherson organized the volunteers into an Ambulance Unit, which continued throughout the war.[2]

World War I

Macpherson in Egypt, September 1915
At the outset of World War I in August 1914 Macpherson was commissioned as a captain and Principal Medical Officer of the newly formed 1st Newfoundland Regiment. He served as the principal medical officer for the St. John Ambulance Brigade of the first Newfoundland Regiment during World War I. He saw on active service in Belgium and France, at Salonika and later at Gallipoli, and in Egypt. His work was mentioned in despatches twice.[3]

Cluny's gas mask, which came to be called the British Smoke Hood was used between June and September 1915, during which time some 2.5 million were produced
The German army used poison gas for the first time against Allied troops at the Second Battle of Ypres, Belgium on April 22, 1915.[4] As an immediate response, cotton wool wrapped in muslin was issued to the troops by 1 May and followed by the Black Veil Respirator, a cotton pad soaked in an absorbent solution which was secured over the mouth using black cotton veiling.[5] Seeking to improve on the Black Veil respirator, Macpherson created a mask made of chemical absorbing fabric and which fitted over the entire head.[6] A 50.5 cm × 48 cm (19.9 in × 18.9 in) canvas hood treated with chlorine-absorbing chemicals, and fitted with a transparent mica eyepiece.[7][8] Macpherson presented his idea to the War Office Anti-Gas Department on May 10, 1915, with prototypes being developed soon after.[9] The design was adopted by the British Army and introduced as the British Smoke Hood in June 1915; Macpherson was appointed to the War Office Committee for Protection against Poisonous Gases.[3] More elaborate sorbent compounds were added later to further iterations of his helmet (PH helmet), to defeat other respiratory poison gases used such as phosgene, diphosgene and chloropicrin.

After suffering a war injury in Egypt, Macpherson returned to Newfoundland in October 1916. He served as the Director of Medical Services for the Militia.[2] For his wartime services, he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1918.[10] He retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.[3]

Later life
Following the war Macpherson had various medical roles including president of the St. John's Clinical Society and the Newfoundland Medical Association. In 1937 he was vice-president of the Newfoundland St. John Ambulance Association in 1937, and later became assistant commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade overseas. Macpherson was also the Registrar of the Newfoundland Medical Board.[2]

During World War II he served in ship convoys in the North Atlantic. He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 1st Company, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in 1957, and was awarded the Canadian Forces Decoration in 1964.[2]

At various times he was chairman of the Lunacy Commissioners, president of the St John Ambulance Council, and vice-president of the Newfoundland Division of the Canadian Red Cross Society. He was a member of the Medical Council of Canada from 1950 and its president in 1954– 55. He was appointed a Knight of the British Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1913 and a Knight of Justice in 1955. He was chairman of the Clan Macpherson Association and president of its Canadian branch.[3]

Family
Macpherson married Eleanora Barbara Macleod Thompson, daughter of William Macleod Thompson,[2] of Northumberland County, Ontario on September 16, 1902.[3] They had two children, Emma Allison (1903– 1971) and Campbell Leonard (1907– 1973).[2] Eleanora was later created OBE and became a Dame of the Order of St John. She died in 1964.[3] Their son, Campbell Leonard, became the third Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland in 1957, and in 1965 served as president of the Macpherson family business, Royal Stores, Ltd., after the death of his uncle, Harold Macpherson (1884-1963), a breeder and world authority on Newfoundland dogs.[11] Cluny Macpherson lived in St. John's until his death on November 16, 1966.[2]

The family home at 65 Rennie's Mill Road, where he served as secretary, treasurer and registrar for the Newfoundland Medical Society[12] now has historic designation.[13]

Living

Sex: M

Spouses and Children

1. Living

Emma Allison Macpherson

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1903 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁶³⁴⁹ Christening: Death: Cir 1971 - ( about age 68) ⁶³⁴⁹ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Lt. Col., Dr. Cluny Macpherson CMG ⁵⁵⁷ Mother: Dame Eleanora Barbara Macleod Thompson OBE ¹⁷²

Eva Macpherson

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 4 Nov 1882 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁶³⁵⁰ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Campbell Macpherson ⁵⁵⁷ Mother: Emma Duder ⁵⁵⁷ ^,2769

Spouses and Children

1. *Harvey Webb ⁵⁵⁷ Marriage: Bef 1818 - Wallasey, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England ⁶³⁵⁰ Children: 1. Living 2. Living

Notes
General:

060213 From Ron Marchinkowski on Ancestry.com.

Eva born 4 Nov 1882 St John's married twice in England. Her first husband died in 1918 in France I would guess in the Great War. She had three children with her first husband and one daughter with her second husband James Young MD, James was my wife's first cousin once removed.

This is Eva the daughter of Campbell Macpherson and Emma Duder from St John's Newfoundland and the sister of Cluny Macpherson MD. She married James Young MD December 31, 1919.

Harold Macpherson

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1884 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁵⁵⁷ Christening: Death: Cir 1963 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( about age 79) ⁵⁵⁷ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Campbell Macpherson ⁵⁵⁷ Mother: Emma Duder ⁵⁵⁷ ^,2769

Notes
General:

010115:

Credited with saving the Newfoundland dog as a breed according to Michael Winter in "Into the Blizzard".

261115 from Kirby Family Group Facebook:

Harold Macpherson is credited with saving the Newfoundland dog from extinction. He bred both the dogs, as well as Ayrshire cattle at his large country estate, Westerland, on the northern outskirts of St. John's. He gained an international reputation for his work with breeding Newfoundland dogs and was for a time vice president of Newfoundland Club of America (Newfoundland Dogs).
From Macpherson's work to save the Newfoundland dog breed, to the working dogs that were an integral part of daily life, to petitions to ban all dogs from the island, this exhibit explores the sometimes controversial role of dogs in Newfoundland and Labrador. Come and learn about a dog's life in Newfoundland and Labrador in the 20th century.

James Macpherson

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Moray, Scotland ⁴⁶⁶⁷ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children

1. *Janet Watson ⁴⁶⁶⁷ Marriage: 10 Apr 1753 - Rafford, Moray, Scotland ³⁵⁵¹ ^,4667 Marriage Notes

150921 from FMP:

Scotland, Parish Marriages & Banns 1561-1893 Transcription
Year Range1682-1819
Record setScotland, Parish Marriages & Banns 1561-1893
First name(s)Janet
Last nameWatson
Marriage year1753
Spouse's first nameJames
Spouse's last nameMcPherson
ResidenceRafford
CountyMoray
CountryScotland
PlaceRafford
Page-
Marriage date10 Apr 1753
Spouse ResidenceRafford
Witness-
Item1
Archive RefOPR 140/1
CategoryBirth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
SubcategoryParish Marriages
Collections fromUnited Kingdom, Scotland
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Children: 1. James McPherson

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