Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway CBE, DStJ (b. 1854, Salford, England, UK – died 4 January 1933, Antibes) was a British suffragist and noblewoman. She was the daughter of Henry Davis Pochin, a noted industrialist and chemist.
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Born as Laura Elizabeth Pochin in 1854, she married, on 6 March 1877, Charles McLaren, a business associate of her father's, in Westminster. He would later be created Baron Aberconway, and they would have four children.
Baroness Aberconway was a campaigner for women's suffrage, founding the Liberal Women's Suffrage Union and publishing some writings on the subject. During World War I, she converted her house in London into a hospital and helped run it.
She was awarded the CBE in 1918. She was also named a Dame of Grace of the Venerable Order of St John.
Aside from her political activities, she was a talented artist and gardner. She and her husband worked to expand and improve the Bodnant Garden begun by her father.