Elliot Macnaghten

Elliot Macnaghten (1807–1888)[1] J.P.[2], also known as also known as Elliot Workman-Macnaghten, was a British official of the East India Company. He was its Chairman in 1855.[3]

He was later a Member of the Supreme Court in Calcutta and Vice President of the India Council.[4]

Personal background

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;[5] and was brother to Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 1st Baronet (1840)[6] and Sir Edmund Charles Workman-Macnaghten, 2nd Baronet (1836) of Bushmills House. He was educated at Rugby School.[4]

Macnaghten was a J.P. He lived at Ovingdean House, Sussex.[2]

Career

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.[4]

He was elected a Director of the Court of the East India Company in 1842 and in 1855 was Chairman.[3]

Family

Macnaghten married, firstly, Isabella (died 1871) only daughter of John Law.[2] He was father of:

He married, secondly, in 1872, Annie Chester, daughter of George Chester of the Bengal Civil Service.[10]

References
  1. "Elliot MacNaghten". The Peerage. 6 December 2011.
  2. 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)
  3. The India list and India Office list
  4. s:Dictionary of Indian Biography/Macnaghten, Elliot
  5. A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great ..., Volume 2
  6. "Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten, 1st Bt". The Peerage. 17 July 2012.
  7. "Macnaghten, Chester (rMNTN861C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  8. "Macnaghten, Henry Alexander (MNTN868HA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  9. "Macnaghten, Melville Leslie (MNTN872ML)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  10. Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage. 1878. p. 314.


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