Margaret Hope MacPherson (born MacLean; 29 June 1908 – 21 October 2001) was a Scottish crofter, politician, author, and activist.
[3] However, because Margaret had come from a well-to-do family and Duncan was working class, the couple felt the wrath of her parents.
There, Duncan worked as a drover, moving cattle and sheep from the Isle of Skye to mainland Scotland to be sold.
Margaret later recalled; "no matter how cheaply Duncan bought lambs or ewes on Skye, by the time he got them to the mainland the price had fallen".
[3] Eventually, they were able to lease 5000 acres on Skye from the Forestry Commission, and they spent the next ten years rearing cattle.
[1] In 1945, MacPherson defeated Sir Godfrey Fell (a retired colonial official) to be elected to represent Portree on Inverness County Council.
[2] She was part of a group known as the "Highland Luxemburgists" (that included Brian Wilson and Allan Campbell McLean), who attempted each year at the party conference to pass a resolution to bring the crofts back into common ownership.
She argued for the nationalisation of all farms above 3,000 acres and against crofters being able to purchase their crofts, as she was a supporter of community ownership.
[1] She had another six books published,[3] including The Rough Road (1965), Ponies on Hire (1967), The New Tenants (1968), The Battle of the Braes (1970), and The Boy on the Roof (1972).