Ian David Patrick Macpherson, 3rd Baron Strathcarron (born 31 March 1949), is a British hereditary peer and member of House of Lords.

[3] Lord Strathcarron spent ten years in the Orient working for Time-Life as a freelance journalist and copywriter.

Lord Strathcarron is a student of Advaita Vedanta and has written of his experiences in non-duality in the books Living with Life[11] and Mysticism and Bliss.

Lord Byron's Grand Tour Re-Toured published by Signal Books,[14] an imprint of Christopher Hurst.

[16] 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.

[21] In 2021, Affable Media published his historical fiction title A Case of Royal Blackmail by Sherlock Holmes.

[24] In 2024, Affable Media published his children's book Pepper and Poncho: Adventures on the African Plains, written in conjunction with the artist Sophie Walbeoffe.