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Ian David Patrick Macpherson, 3rd Baron Strathcarron (born 31 March 1949 in London, England) is a British peer, Baron Strathcarron of Banchor and inherited the title on the death of his father David William Anthony Blyth Macpherson, 2nd Baron Strathcarron on 31 August 2006.
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 in 1974, and a founder and Director of Global Alliance Automotive Ltd, a transnational version of Strathcarron & Company in 1993. In 1995, he founded Strathcarron Sports Cars plc manufacturers of sports/racing cars and since 2006 he has been a trustee and director of the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire [1].
He is chairman of Unicorn Publishing Group, a cultural and military history publishing company, chairman of Sophie Macpherson Ltd, a fine arts recruitment company, chairman of Play Associates Ltd., an interior design company, and a director of Art World Alliance Ltd., 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". In 2016, he wrote a handbook on mysticism "Mysticism and Bliss".
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 and has his own mediation practice Mediation Process LLP. In 2013, he qualified as a Restorative Justice practitioner, registered with the Restorative Justice Council. He is a director of ArtResolve Ltd, a cultural property mediation panel and a trustee of The Society of Mediators
He is the author of two spy thriller novels for Troubador: "Invisibility", and "Black Beach".
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, 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 by in the US by Dover Publications and in the UK by Signal Books. 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 published his biography of Sir Francis Chichester, Never Fear: Reliving the Life of Sir Francis Chichester.
In 2017 Unicorn published his art book about the painter Sophie Walbeoffe, Painting with Both Hands.
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).