(30 April 1903-15 Sept. 1970), clergyman, educator. Born at St. Andrew’s West, Ont. Parents: John H. McLaughlin and his wife Anna Maria Wheeler. He attended a primary school near his home, Cornwall Collegiate Institutute, St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto, and St. Basil’s Seminary in Toronto. On 9 Aug. 1930 he took his final vows as a member of the Basilian community, and on 17 Aug. 1930 he was ordained to the priesthood. For the next 5 years, he studied the history of canon law at the University of Strasbourg, Faculté de Droit of the University of Paris, and École des Hautes Études, in Paris. Ultimately, he himself was a distinguished historian of the canon law. From 1935 till he became professor emeritus in 1968, he taught at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto. He was superior and president of St. Michael’s College from 1940 to 1946. He also served for some years as procurator general of his order at the Holy See. After WWII, he spent about half of every year in Rome. Ulcers were a part of the ill health from which he suffered much. In addition to scholarly articles, he was the author of Le très ancien droit monastique de l’occident (1935), The Summa Parisiensis on the Decretum Gratiani (1952) and The Church and the Reconstruction of the Modern World: the Social Encyclicals of Pope Pius XI (1957). He was the editor of Medieval Studies 1962 to 1970. He died at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Toronto. The address of a surviving brother, Felix McLaughlin, was stated as Martintown, GC. Another brother, Fr John Redmond McLaughlin (13 Nov. 1916-20 Dec. 1954), was, like the subject of the present biography, a Basilian priest.

Globe & Mail 16 Sept. 1970 * biog. sketch (4 pp.) in The Basilian Newsletter, No. 12 (18 Sept. 1970) * biog. sketch in Medieval Studies XXXIII (1971) with portrait and list of his publications; this volume of Medieval Studies was dedicated to him * entry in Who’s Who in Canada 1964/65 p. 427 * private information * appointed superior at St. Michael’s College, Standard Freeholder 26 June 1940