Background
MCLAREN, Charles Benjamin Bright was born on May 12, 1850 in Edinburgh. 3rd son of Duncan M‘Laren, Member of Parliament, Edinburgh, and Priscilla, daughter of late Jacob Bright, Rochdale, and sister of Right Honourable John Bright.
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Charles Benjamin Bright MCLAREN
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Studied at Edinburgh University (Master of Arts). Fergusson Scholar, Hamilton Scholar. Universities Bonn, Heidelberg.
Career
Barrister Lincoln’s Inn, 1874. Queen’s Counsel 1897. A contributor to The Times and other papers on technical and engineering subjects.
Practised at Chancery Bar till 1897. Member of Parliament for Stafford 1880 and 1885. Voted for Home Rule Bill, 1886.
Defeated at general election. A Radical; one of founders of Eighty and National Liberal Clubs. Justice of the Peace Denbighshire, Flintshire, and Surrey.
Chairman of British Iron Trade Association, 1909. Associate of Institute of Naval Architects. 3rd class Order of Sacred Treasure.
Chairman of Metropolitan Railway Company, Tredegar Iron and Coal Company, and John Brown and Company. Director of Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company, and other colliery companies in the Midlands. 1st Baronet, cartulary-register 1902; P.C., King’s Counsel, Member of Parliament Radical Leicestershire (Bosworth) since 1892; actively interested in steel, shipbuilding, and colliery undertakings.
Membership
Clubs: Reform, Savile, National Liberal, Eighty, Automobile.
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Clubs; J.P. Denbighshire, Flintshire, and Surrey; Chairman of British Iron Trade Association, 1909; Associate of Institute of Naval Architects; 3rd class Order of Sacred Treasure. Heir: s. Henry Duncan Recreations: shooting, forestry, photography, automobilism. Address : 43 Belgrave Square, S.W.; Hilders, Sliottermill, Surrey; Bodnant, Tal-ycafn, North Wales; Chateau de la Garoupe, Antibes, France. T. : 5445 Westminster. M. : O 148 : O 149. Clubs: Reform, Savile, National Liberal, Eighty, Automobile.
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Heir: Henry Duncan.
