Donald McPherson

(Archdiocese of Glasgow) Born in Glasgow, 8th November 1853, the son of Donald McPherson and Anne Forbes; received subdiaconate from Dom Serra of Daulia (Perth, Australia) in college church, 20th November 1881; ordained a priest, bishop’s private chapel, Palencia, 25th March 1882, and left for Scotland, 11th April 1882; died in Chapelhall, 21st November 1932. (MT)

Date	Age	Description
8 Nov. 1853		Born Glasgow
1872-1875	19	Blairs
15 Sep. 1875	21	Arrived in the College
20 Nov. 1881	28	Received subdiaconate from Dom Serra, O.S.B., tit. Bp. of Daulia (former administrator of Perth, Australia) in college church
25 Mar. 1882	28	Ordained a priest, bishop’s private chapel, Palencia
11 Apr. 1882	28	Left for Scotland
1882	29	Eigg
1882-1895	29	Arisaig
1895-1896	42	Oban
1896-1897	43	St Michael's, Glasgow
1897-1901	44	St Patrick's, Glasgow
1901-1907	48	Our Lady's, Motherwell
1907-1932	54	Chapelhall
21 Nov. 1932	79	Died Chapelhall

Report of the ordination of Donald McPherson in the Scottish Catholic Directory of 1883.

The Rev. Donald A. McPherson was born in Glasgow on 8th November, 1853; entered Blairs College on 31st July, 1872; and was sent to Valladolid in August, 1875. He received the Tonsure and Minor Orders on the 19th, and the Subdiaconate on the 20th, November, 1881, from Mgr. Serra, Bishop of Daulia, in the College Chapel; and was ordained Deacon on the 4th, and Priest on the 25th, March, 1882, by Mgr. Lozano y Terreira, Bishop of Palencia, in the Chapel of his Episcopal Palace. On his return to Scotland, he served for some time in Eigg, and afterwards in Arisaig, of which latter Mission he soon got full charge.