Elliot Macnaghten
Elliot Macnaghten (1807–1888)[1] J.P.[2] was a Member of the Supreme Court in Calcutta and Vice President of the India Council.[3] He was Chairman of the East India Company in 1855.[4]
Personal background
He was also known as Elliot Workman-Macnaghten.
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] Elliot Macnaghten was brother to Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 1st Baronet (1840)[6] and Sir Edmund Charles Workman-Macnaghten, 2nd Baronet (1836) of Bushmills House.
Elliot Macnaghten was a J.P. He lived at Ovingdean House, Sussex. Macnaghten married 1st Isabella, (who died 1871) only daughter of John Law.[2]
Macnaghten was father of Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten,[2] Chester Macnaghten, the first Principal of the Rajkumar College, Rajkot where he taught and influenced 170 royals of The Princely Order of Western India.
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.[3]
He was elected a Director of the Court of the East India Company in 1842 and in 1855 was Chairman.[4]
References
- ^ "Elliot MacNaghten". The Peerage. 6 December 2011.
- ^ a b c 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]
- ^ a b Dictionary of Indian Biography. Page 266
- ^ a b The India list and India Office list
- ^ A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great ..., Volume 2 [2]
- ^ "Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten, 1st Bt". The Peerage. 17 July 2012.
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