Charles Melville McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, JP (16 April 1913 – 4 February 2003)[1] was a British industrialist and horticulturalist.

Due to this connection, he took part in the secret, unofficial meeting of British businessmen with Hermann Göring arranged by Birger Dahlerus in August 1939 as a last-ditch effort to forestall war.

Besides maintaining the family's Bodnant Garden, he was the President of the Royal Horticultural Society from 1961 to 1983 and oversaw the management of the Chelsea Flower Show.

His annual assertion became famous: I think I can say, without fear of contradiction, that this is the finest Chelsea Flower Show everDespite inheriting a seat in the House of Lords, he rarely attended.

[citation needed] He is buried at the mausoleum called "The Poem" within Bodnant Garden, the traditional burial place of the Lords Aberconway.