Elliot Macnaghten

Elliot Macnaghten (1807–1888) J.P,^[1] also known as 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

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 (1836) 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

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

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 (1836) of Bushmills House, a barrister a master in chancery in Bengal. He was educated at Rugby School.^[3]

References

1. 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)
2. The India list and India Office list
3. s:Dictionary of Indian Biography/Macnaghten, Elliot
4. A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great ..., Volume 2
5. "Macnaghten, Chester (rMNTN861C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
6. "Macnaghten, Henry Alexander (MNTN868HA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
7. "Macnaghten, Melville Leslie (MNTN872ML)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
8. Debrett, John (1878). Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage. p. 314.