Elliot Macnaghten
Elliot Macnaghten (1807–1888) J.P,[1] also known as Elliot Workman-Macnaghten, was a British official of the East India Company. He was its Chairman in 1855.[2]
He was later a Member of the Supreme Court in Calcutta and Vice President of the India Council.[3]
Personal background
[edit]Macnaghten was the son of Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten of Bushmills House (1836), in the county of Antrim;[4] and was brother to Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 1st Baronet (1840) and Sir Edmund Charles Workman-Macnaghten, 2nd Baronet of Bushmills House, a barrister, a master in chancery in Bengal. He was educated at Rugby School.[3]
Macnaghten was a J.P. He lived at Ovingdean House, Sussex.[1]
Career
[edit]Macnaghten was a member of the Supreme Court in Calcutta and was one of the original members of the India Council in 1858 and Vice President in 1866.[3]
He was elected a Director of the Court of the East India Company in 1842 and in 1855 was Chairman.[2]
Family
[edit]Macnaghten married, firstly, Isabella (died 1871) only daughter of John Law.[1] He was father of:
- Chester Macnaghten, fourth son (born 1843), the founding Principal of the Rajkumar College, Rajkot, the first English Boarding School built under Macaulay's Doctrine on Education in India..,[5] after his tutorship of Lakshmeshwar Singh, then the Prince of Darbhanga, a minor.
- Henry Alexander Macnaghten, fifth son (born 1850), cleric.[6]
- Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten, sixth son (born 1853).[1][7]
He married, secondly, in 1872, Annie Chester, daughter of George Chester of the Bengal Civil Service.[8]
Macnaghten was the son of Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten, knt. (later Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten, 1st Baronet) of Bushmills House (1836), in the county of Antrim;[4] and was brother to Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 1st Baronet (1840) and Sir Edmund Charles Workman-Macnaghten, 2nd Baronet of Bushmills House, a barrister a master in chancery in Bengal. He was educated at Rugby School.[3]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland .. (Volume ed.59, yr.1919)
- 1 2 The India list and India Office list
- 1 2 3 4 s:Dictionary of Indian Biography/Macnaghten, Elliot
- 1 2 A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great ..., Volume 2
- ↑ "Macnaghten, Chester (rMNTN861C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ "Macnaghten, Henry Alexander (MNTN868HA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ "Macnaghten, Melville Leslie (MNTN872ML)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ Debrett, John (1878). Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage. p. 314.
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