Greetings from Harry McLaughlin

For intriguing insights into the lives of the Victorians and Edwardians, open my family photo album by clicking the notice alongside. The album includes an account of the wartime adventures of one of the first Red Cross nurses, my great-aunt Louisa. It also reveals the secret drawers of a secretaire donated to the Los Angeles art museum.

This website is optimised for Internet Explorer 8. If you use Firefox it will look much better after you download the IE Tab extension.

Visit the rest of the website by clicking the links listed below. Discover McLaughlin family secrets revealed in our annotated family tree. It traces two lines of descent from England's King Edward I all the way down to cousin Guy Ritchie and his ex-wife Madonna. The file requires Adobe Reader: to download the latest version free, click

I am an English retired octogenarian psychologist whose wonderful wife Liliane died in 2009. Please read the obituary of this exceptional lady who earned President Clinton's praise.

The Photo Album includes information about my theatrical parentage.

I grew up in London's Royal Borough of Kensington and was educated at the Lycée Français de Londres until the war broke out when I was ten. After that I went to Cheltenham College, one of the best British public schools. But my family could not afford me a higher education, so I became a journalist. Eventually I had a job working each weekend as a subeditor for the four million circulation Daily Mirror newspaper, then commuting 150 miles from London to Sheffield University. After obtaining a BA, I gained a PhD in experimental psychology from University College London while lecturing at the City University, London.

In 1967 I moved to Toronto, Canada, to be Assistant Professor of Psycholinguistics at York University. A year later I was appointed Associate Professor of Human Communication Theory at the University of Syracuse, also acting as a consultant to NASA. I subsequently became Associate Professor of Computer Applications at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

While in Toronto I did clinical training and became a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Psycologists, enabling me to go into private practice as a psychotherapist and neuropsychologist after I married in 1980 and moved to California.

I have crossed the Sahara & the Congo, trekked in the Himalayas and cruised in the Antarctic. Of the more than 100 countries in which I have traveled my favorites are Bali and Tibet.

I enjoy theater, BBC TV, Benny Hill and similar broad comedy, Wagnerian opera, surrealist art, museums of all kinds, computers, reading, conversation, and gourmet food. I am stimulated by novel ideas gained in graduate seminars at UCLA. I am working on a readability project for the British Standards Institute.

Everyone I meet is surprised when they learn my age, and the trainer who supervises my workouts three times a week is surprised at how fit I am. I live up to my family motto "I keep my promises."

Contact me at gmclaughlin3 at roadrunner dot com.