Here's a brief timeline summary of what we've been able to learn about Jock Macpherson:
1928 – Graduated from University of Glasgow Medical School with M.B, Ch.B
Senior Vice President of the Glasgow University Medico-Chirurgical Society.
1929 - Medical Officer, Gilbert & Ellice Islands Colony
1931 - Acting Senior Medical Officer of the G&EIC
Awarded a Fellowship in the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation.
1933-1935 - On leave. Granted a Certificate in Public Health , June 12, 1934, at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England.
Resumed duty in Fiji Feb. 19, 1935 and transferred to Fiji Service.
1939, July – Appointed Pathologist for the Colony of Fiji.
1939, Oct. – Appointed Assistant to Central Medical Authority of Western Pacific.
1940 - Acting Central Medical Authority of Western Pacific.
1943 - died in Suva , age 42. Cause of death cirrhosis of the liver