South African lawyer. For most of his career, Alfred George McLoughlin, who was born in Cape Town, worked in the Department of Native Affairs in Transkei. As a trained lawyer with a diploma in Bantu Studies, he was elected President of the Native Appeal Court in 1936 and served for a decade until his retirement. He had a broad knowledge of the sciences but was particularly keen on botany and archaeology, and joined the South African Association for the Advancement of Science in 1915. The bulk of his botanical collections were made while serving in the army. He collected 140 orchids during active service in tropical Africa in the First World War, which he donated to the National Herbarium, Pretoria, with accompanying paintings. During the Second World War, he sent succulents to the Division of Botany from his postings in East Africa and Ethiopia where he was serving as President of the Permanent Courts Martial. Some of these, especially the new species, were illustrated in Flowering Plants of Africa. He is commemorated by Aloe mcloughlinii Christian, Stapelia mcloughlinii Verd., Pterydodium macloughlinii L. Bolus and Cynorkis macloughlinii L. Bolus (= Stenoglottis macloughlinii (L. Bolus) G. McDonald ex J.M.H. Shaw). In 1933 he presented a paper to the society entitled "An Outline of the Archaeological Stratigraphy in the District of St Marks (Cofimvaba)". He later retired to the Knysna District, near Ruigte Vlei.

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1961, South African Journal of Science, 57: 73.