Alexander Macpherson, the Land Steward's surviving son, went on to a distinguished career in Nottingham, and particularly in Derby where some of his architectural creations are still standing. His eldest son, John, who had been in partnership with his father in Derby, was killed on the first day of the Somme offensive. John's brother Duncan survived the war and aspired to join his father as a professional architect, but nothing is known of his subsequent career. Their father, Alexander, died in 1935.

      In the season 1970/71 the Clan Macpherson Museum received Queen Victoria's gifts, the silver black leather-covered whisky flask and the silver teapot, bequeathed by "the late Mrs HyIda Macpherson, widow of Captain Ronald Macpherson of the Northamptonshire Regiment, a grandson of John Macpherson, steward of Queen Victoria's estates in the Isle of Wight". Captain Ronald died 15 April 1968, aged 70, at Warsash, Hampshire. He was Alexander's youngest son.