Charles Benjamin Bright McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway

Wikipedia Biographical Summary

"Charles Benjamin Bright McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, PC, QC, JP (12 May 1850 – 23 January 1934), known as Sir Charles McLaren, 1st Baronet between 1902 and 1911, was a Scottish jurist and Liberal Party politician. He was a landowner and industrialist...

...Born in Edinburgh, McLaren was the son of the politician Duncan McLaren. The latter's third wife, his mother Priscilla, was the daughter of Jacob Bright and the sister of the Liberal statesman John Bright. McLaren was educated at Grove House School and studied then at the University of Heidelberg as well as the University of Bonn. He finally graduated from the University of Edinburgh first class honours with a Master of Arts...

...On 6 March 1877, McLaren married Laura, the daughter of the chemist Henry Davis Pochin, in Westminster; the couple had four children. He and his wife were neighbours and friends of James McNeill Whistler, owning several of his works...

...Laura died in 1933 and McLaren survived her until the following year. On his death in 1934, in Belgrave Square in London, the barony and baronetcy passed to his eldest son, Henry. His second son Francis sat also in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, however was killed during the First World War in his father's lifetime. The older daughter Florence was a socialite as well as activist and married the journalist Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet. Her younger sister Elsie was the wife of Sir Edward Johnson-Ferguson, 2nd Baronet."

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Charles Benjamin Bright McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway was the son of Duncan McLaren and Priscilla Bright.

He married Laura Elizabeth Pochin, daughter of Henry Davis Pochin and Agnes Heap, on 6 March 1877 at Friend's Meeting House, Westminster, London, England. He died aged 83 at Belgrave Square, London, England.

He was buried on 26 January 1934 at Bodnant Hall, Bodnant, Denbighshire, Wales.

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