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McLaren Clan visit Old Scotch Square

McLaren clan

On 28 May 2005, a group of 20 descendents of Rev. and Mrs S.G. McLaren and members of their extended families met to celebrate their participation in the Old Scotch Pavers Program.

The McLaren clan organised the acquisition of pavers and plaques for a total of 19 Scotch Collegians from eight families covering two sons and three generations of grandsons whose exit years from Scotch ranged from 1893 to 2005.

After inspecting the family plaques adjacent to the Burning Bush sculpture in the Old Scotch Square, the gathering adjourned to the Gazebo between the tennis courts and the River for afternoon tea.

Four deceased members of the McLaren clan were honoured by the reading of a commemorative poem about each, written by Edward (Ted) Holmes 1939: Bruce McLaren 1893, Professor of Mathematics at Reading University at the time of his death from wounds on the Somme in 1916; his brother Charles 1899, a medical missionary to Korea 1912–42, who introduced the discipline of psychiatry to that country; Bruce Holmes 1934, a 37-year-old research chemist who died of poliomyelitis in 1954, six months before the Salk vaccine became available; and Ken Hepburn 1941 who died in a flying accident in 1944 while training at the RAAF fighter Operations Training Unit at Mildura (one of 51 men who died while training at Mildura during WWII). At the time of his death Ken was engaged to Mardi Holmes, younger sister of Bruce and Ted.

McLaren clan

The names of the other families included are Humann, Matheson, Miller, Harkness and Sussex.

Ted Holmes

Updated: Monday 24 June 2013