Gaelic Name: Mac a’ Phearsoin
Motto: Touch not the cat without a glove
Badge: White heather
Lands: Badenoch
Origin of Name: Gaelic, Mac a’ Phearsoin (Son of the Parson)
Pipe Music: MacPherson’s march

The MacPherson Clan comes from Lochaber and is one source of the numerous Smith families.

Of ecclesiastic origin, this is a name derived from the gaelic Macaphersein, meaning “Son of the Parson”.
Septs include Archibald, Clark, Ellison, Gillespie, MacKeith and MacMurdo