# Charles Macpherson

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'''Charles Macpherson''' DMus ([Dunelm](/source/Durham_University)) [FRAM](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Music) [FRCO](/source/FRCO) (10 May 1870 – 28 May 1927) was a Scottish [organist](/source/Organist), who served at [St Paul's Cathedral](/source/St_Paul's_Cathedral).<ref>Watkins Shaw ''The Succession of Organists''</ref>

==Family==
Macpherson was born in [Edinburgh](/source/Edinburgh) on 10 May 1870, to Charles Macpherson, the Burgh Architect,<ref>[http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201019 Dictionary of Scottish Architects: Charles Macpherson]. Retrieved 19 January 2021.</ref> and Mary Charlotte d'Egville.<ref>[http://www.guarlfordparish.uk/remember_church_fancourt.htm Guarlford History Group]. Retrieved 19 January 2021.</ref> His brother, the Rev. Ranald Macpherson (1871–1951) was sometime [Vicar Choral](/source/lay_clerk) of [Ripon Cathedral](/source/Ripon_Cathedral).<ref>Mary E. Ingram, ''A Jacobite Stronghold of the Church, Being the Story of Old St. Paul's, Edinburgh'' (1907).</ref>

He married Sophia Menella Newbolt (1883–1962), the youngest daughter of the Rev. Canon [William Charles Edmund Newbolt](/source/William_Newbolt), in 1910. Their son, Alasdair Charles Macpherson (born 1911), died in 1941 while serving with the [Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve](/source/Royal_Air_Force_Volunteer_Reserve).<ref>[https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2634805/macpherson,-alasdair-charles/ Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Pilot Officer Alasdair Charles Macpherson (service No. 63805)]. Retrieved 19 January 2021.</ref>

==Career==
At the age of nine, Macpherson became a chorister at [St. Paul's Cathedral](/source/St._Paul's_Cathedral), later studying music at the [Royal Academy of Music](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Music). He was organist at [St Clement Eastcheap](/source/St_Clement_Eastcheap) between 1887 and 1890, before returning to St Paul's as assistant organist between 1895 and 1916, being made organist in 1916, a position he held until his death.<ref>Percy Alfred Scholes ''The Mirror of Music, 1844-1944''</ref>

He was Professor of Composition at the [Royal Academy of Music](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Music) and was elected a Fellow. He was President of the [Royal College of Organists](/source/Royal_College_of_Organists) from 1920 to 1922. Two hymns by Macpherson were included in [Hymns Ancient and Modern](/source/Hymns_Ancient_and_Modern) in 1916 ''Exsurgat Deus'', and ''Stonypath''. He composed a ''Thanksgiving [Te Deum](/source/Te_Deum)'' for the thanksgiving service at St Paul's on 6 July 1919, which marked the end of the [First World War](/source/First_World_War) and was attended by King [George V](/source/George_V) and [Queen Mary](/source/Mary_of_Teck).<ref>{{cite journal |last=G. |first=G. |date=1919 |title=Dr. Macpherson's Thanksgiving Te Deum |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3701889 |journal=The Musical Times |volume=60 |issue=918 |pages=416–418 |doi=10.2307/3701889 |jstor=3701889 |access-date=21 February 2022}}</ref>

He died suddenly on 28 May 1927.<ref>''The Musical Times''; 1 July 1927, p. 655</ref>

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