Elliot Macnaghten (1807–1888) J.P,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.191

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. He was its Chairman in 1855.The India list and India Office list
/ref> He was later a Member of the Supreme Court in Calcutta and Vice President of the India Council. s:Dictionary of Indian Biography/Macnaghten, Elliot

Personal background

Macnaghten was the son of Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten of Bushmills House (1836), in the county of Antrim;A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great ..., Volume

/ref> and was brother to William Hay Macnaghten, 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 Rugby School is a Public school (United Kingdom), private boarding school for pupils aged 13–18, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independ ...

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

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. He was elected a Director of the Court of the

in 1842 and in 1855 was Chairman.

Family

Macnaghten married, firstly, Isabella (died 1871) only daughter of John Law. He was father of: * Chester Macnaghten, fourth son (born 1843), the founding Principal of the

Rajkumar College, Rajkot The Rajkumar College (or RKC) in Rajkot, Gujarat is one of the oldest K-12 institutions in India. RKC has a 28.656-acre (1,15,965 m²) campus in Rajkot. The foundation stone of Rajkumar College was laid in 1868. The institution was designed by ...

, the first English Boarding School built under Macaulay's Doctrine on Education in India.., after his tutorship of

Lakshmeshwar Singh Maharaja Sir Lakshmeshwar Singh, Maharaja of Darbhanga (25 September 1858 – 16 November 1898) was the Zamindar and principal landowner of Darbhanga in the Mithila region, presently in the state of Bihar, India. His philanthropic works, admin ...

, then the Prince of Darbhanga, a minor. * Henry Alexander Macnaghten, fifth son (born 1850), cleric. * Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten, sixth son (born 1853). He married, secondly, in 1872, Annie Chester, daughter of George Chester of the

Bengal Civil Service The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947. Its members ruled over more than 300 million p ...

. 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; and was brother to William Hay Macnaghten, 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

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