Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Macpherson (born 1775) of Gaskmore and Kingston was an army officer who fought in the American Revolution, the War of 1812.
His nephew was Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, PC (Can) first Prime Minister of Canada and driving force behind Canadian Confederation Born in 1755 Macpherson was the illegitimate[citation needed] son of the Jacobite rebel and exile Ewen MacPherson of Cluny chief of the Clan Macpherson and grandson of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel a Scottish highland chieftain and the 17th Chief of Clan Cameron.
Given the unproductive lands of Gaskmore, Macpherson join the British Army in 1775 to fight against the American Revolutionaries.
He returned to Scotland in 1783 where he raised a company of clansmen from his father's lands to fight in the British Army called the Cluny Volunteers.
He was instrumental in bringing his sister in law and family over from Scotland and their son was John Alexander Macdonald Prime Minister of Canada.