MACPHERSON, SAMUEL CHARTERS (brother of John Macpherson
1817–90). _b._ King’s college, Old Aberdeen 7 Jany. 1806;
studied at college of Edinb. 1822–3 and at Trin. coll. Camb.
1823–5; ensign 8 Madras N.I. 28 Feb. 1827, captain 18 Jany.
1845 to death; principal assistant to the collector and agent
in Gangam 1842–5; conquered the Gumsur Khond county by the
use of moral influences 1842–4; governor general’s agent for
suppression of Meriah or human sacrifice and female infanticide
in hill tracts of Orissa, Nov. 1845, but was superseded 1847;
agent at Benares, Aug. 1853, agent at Bhopal 1853; political
agent at Gwalior, capital of Scindhia 13 June 1854 to death;
brevet major 20 June 1854; gazetted C.B. 18 May 1860 after his
death; author of Account of the religion of the Khonds in Orissa