Charles McLaren

Charles Inglis McLaren M.D. (23 August 1882 – 9 October 1957) was an Australian psychiatrist and missionary.

Early life and education McLaren was born in Tokyo to Rev. Samuel Gilfillan McLaren M.A., a Scottish missionary, and his wife Marjory. He attended Scotch College, Melbourne, and then Ormond College at the University of Melbourne, from which he received a Bachelor of Medicine in 1906, a Bachelor of Science in 1907 and a Doctorate of Medicine in 1910. He was resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1907 to 1908 and in 1909 moved to the Children's Hospital. In 1910, as Australasian chairman of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, he toured Australian and New Zealand universities.

Career McLaren married Jessie Reeve, daughter of a missionary and travelling secretary of the Christian Union, on 22 August 1911 at Alma Road Presbyterian Church in St Kilda. They travelled to Korea as missionaries, and McLaren was assistant superintendent and then superintendent of Paton Memorial Hospital in Chinju. In 1917 he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was medical officer to the Chinese Labour Battalion in France. He was professor of neurology and psychological medicine at Union Christian Medical College, Severance Hospital, in Seoul from 1922 to 1939 before returning to Chinju Hospital in 1940 (he also undertook further study at Vienna in 1929).

Charles' elder brother Samuel Bruce McLaren was an Adams Prize winning Professor of Mathematics who died during the Battle of the Somme.