Personal Life
McLarty married Elizabeth Campbell in March 1875, they had six children, three boys and three girls. The eldest Campbell McLarty was one of the pastrolists to open up the north west of Western Australia for graziers. Roy McLarty received the Military Medal at Gallipoli and went on to become the Chief Executive for the AMP Society. His youngest son Duncan Keith was killed in action on 25 September 1915 a during the Battle of Loos.
The youngest of his daughters, Muriel Eileen McLarty, was the oldest surviving McLarty to attend the National Trust of Australia official opening of Old Blythewood homestead near Pinjarra by Governor Wallace Kyle. Old Blythewood was built Hector McLarty's father John in 1851 and was given to the National Trust by the McLarty family in 1974.
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