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), eldest of the six children of the Rev. Thomas Maurice (1806-81), MA, and Jane Martha née Croome (1816-92). 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.

A year after his marriage Frederick went to Bengal where he was appointed Assistant Magistrate and Collector in 1865. He became a District and Sessions Judge in 1884.

This photograph of Harriet (as she was usually called) was taken at the time of her marriage. She bore four children, all male, but the first, Frederick Harry Crofton McLaughlin, died in 1864, one year after his birth in Calcutta. Frederick was on private affairs leave from July to December 1875. Presumably it was about then that Harriet died, probably in India as I find no trace of her in England. The next year Frederick remarried.

The judge retired in 1890 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.