Edmond Alexander MacNaghten (2 August 1762 – 15 March 1832) was an Irish

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politician from

County Antrim County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, County Antrim, Antrim, ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, located within the historic Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the c ...

. He sat in the

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from 1797 until the Act of Union in 1800, and then in the

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from 1801 to 1830. He was the oldest son of Edmund MacNaghten of Beardiville House (between

Coleraine Coleraine ( ; from , 'nook of the ferns'Flanaghan, Deirdre & Laurence; ''Irish Place Names'', page 194. Gill & Macmillan, 2002. ) is a town and Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish near the mouth of the River Bann in County Londonderry, No ...

and

Bushmills, County Antrim Bushmills (From Irish language, Irish ''Muileann na Buaise'') is a village on the north coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Bushmills had a population of 1,247 in the United Kingdom Census 2021, 2021 Census. It is located from Belfast, f ...

). His mother Hannah was a daughter of John Johnstone of

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. MacNaghten was educated at

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and at

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. In the Irish House of Commons he sat for

from 1797 until the Union, then he was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Antrim at

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until 1812. From 1812 to 1826 he was an MP for

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in Suffolk, before sitting again for Antrim until 1830. MacNaghten was High Sheriff of County Antrim from 1793–4, became a trustee of the Irish Linen Board in 1810. He was a Commissioner of the Treasury for Ireland from 1813–17, and for the United Kingdom from March 1819 to July 1830. In 1818 he was made chief of

Clan MacNaghten Clan Macnaghten (sometimes spelt as MacNachten, MacNaughton, McNaughton or McNorton), Scottish Gaelic: ''MacNeachdain'', is a Scottish clan.Way, George and Squire, Romily. (1994). ''Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia''. (Foreword by The ...

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