Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway

Laura Elizabeth McLaren, Baroness Aberconway CBE, DStJ (née Pochin; 14 May 1854 – 4 January 1933) was a British suffragist, author and horticulturalist.

She was the daughter of Henry Davis Pochin, a noted industrialist and chemist, and his wife, Agnes (née Heap), a leading women's rights activist.

[1] She married the journalist and Liberal MP Charles McLaren, a business associate of her father's, at Westminster on 6 March 1877.

Her daughter Priscilla, also a noted activist and suffragist, married Sir Henry Norman and, with him, developed gardens at Ramster Hall, Surrey.

[2] Lady Aberconway also developed the topiary terraces at Golden Grove, Llanasa, another house in North Wales owned by her father.