J. G. (John Gordon) M'Pherson

John Gordon M'Pherson (1843–1909) was a Scottish educator, scientist, and writer. Sources available online consistently link him with teaching and scientific work rather than a large literary career, and LibriVox describes him as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an extension lecturer on meteorology, and a mathematical examiner at the University of St Andrews.

The work most clearly associated with him today is Meteorology; or, Weather Explained, a popular science book written to make weather and atmospheric ideas easier for ordinary readers to understand. That fits the picture of M'Pherson as a practical explainer: someone interested in education, clear communication, and bringing science closer to everyday life.

Reliable biographical detail beyond that is fairly limited in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to remember him as a late 19th-century Scottish science popularizer whose reputation now rests mainly on his accessible writing about weather.