FREDERICK HUBERT MCLAUGHLIN, MA, LLM (1840-1911), was educated at Bromsgrove, Shrewsbury, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1862 he joined Her Majesty's Indian Civil Service, and married Marrianne Harriette (b. 1841).

She was the eldest of the six children of the Rev. Thomas Maurice (1806-81), MA, and Jane Martha née Croome(1816-92). Thomas was Rector of Harnhill and Vicar of Driffield, JP for Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. The Rector employed a cook, nurse, under-nurse, parlour maid, house maid and groom. In addition 11 men, five boys and three women worked on his 211 acre farm.

The photograph below of Harriet (as she was usually called) was taken at the time of her marriage. A year later the couple went to Bengal.

In 1875 Harriet died of a liver abscess while off Aden aboard the steamship City of Carthage. The next year Frederick remarried.

Frederick had been appointed Assistant Magistrate and Collector in 1865. He became a District and Sessions Judge in 1884. Six years later he retired and lived successively at 28 The Avenue, Richmond, Surrey, at Marina Villa, New Church Road, Hove, at Pitchcott, Aylesbury, and finally at a house in Tudor Road, Upper Norwood, London SE, which he named for his childhood home, Boraston.

Family legend has it that Frederick had grown rich by dealing in rubies while partnered with an Indian rajah. His emolument as a judge in 1880 was 2,000 rupees a month, or £2,000 per annum, about £80,000 ($150,000) in today's money, at a very conservative estimate. It is puzzling that so little wealth passed to his children.

Harriet bore him four children, all male, but the first, Frederick Harry Crofton McLaughlin, died of convulsions in 1864, five months after his birth in Calcutta. The biography of the second son HUBERT is given on the next page. His younger brother, DONAL McLAUGHLIN, born 1867, was a sickly lad who died at the age of 17, in Minnesota. (Two step-brothers later migrated to Minneapolis, Minnesota — what attracted them there?)

Frederick and Harriet's youngest son, CHARLES WALTER McLAUGHLIN (1872-1948) was born in India. He obtained a BA degree at Bishop Hatfield's Hall, a college of Durham University. For two years starting in 1897, Charles served in the Oxford Mission to India, which owned an imposing building in the student quarter of the then capital, Calcutta.

In 1891 Charles stayed at the Vicarage of his uncle the Rev. Alfred McLaughlin, in Bothamstall, Nottinghamshire. Charles became a curate at St. Luke in London's Victoria Docks in 1895. Four years later, as Vicar of St. Leonards, Newark on-Trent, Nottingham, he married Lucy Caroline Steele (born 1868), daughter of John Steele, MD, Medical Superintendent of Guy's Hospital. By 1903 he had become Vicar of Barnet Vale, and was later Vicar of Totteridge, Buckinghamshire.