Macnaghten may refer to: * Anne Macnaghten (1908–2000), British violinist *

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 ...

Daniel M'Naghten Daniel M'Naghten (sometimes spelt McNaughtan or McNaughton; 1813 – 3 May 1865) was a Scottish woodturner who assassinated English civil servant Edward Drummond while suffering from paranoid delusions. Following his trial and its aftermath, ...

, namesake of the

M'Naghten rules The M'Naghten rule(s) (pronounced, and sometimes spelled, McNaughton) is a legal test (law), test defining the Insanity defense, defence of insanity that was formulated by the House of Lords in 1843. It is the established standard in UK crimina ...

* Edward Macnaghten * Elliot Macnaghten *

Sir Francis Workman Macnaghten, 1st Baronet Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten, 1st Baronet (1763–1843) was an Anglo-Irish judge in India. Early life He was the son of Edmund MacNaghten of Beardiville, Co. Antrim, and his second wife Hannah Johnstone of Belfast, and younger brother of Edmond ...

(1763–1843), judge in India, father of Elliot Macnaghten and William Hay Macnaghten * Half Hung MacNaghten * Macnaghten baronets of Bushmills House (1836) * Malcolm Macnaghten *

Melville Macnaghten Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten (16 June 1853, Woodford, London −12 May 1921) was Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police from 1903 to 1913. A highly regarded and famously affable figure of the late Victorian and ...

William Hay Macnaghten Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 1st Baronet (24 August 179323 December 1841), was a British civil servant in India, who played a major part in the First Anglo-Afghan War. Life William was the second son of Sir Francis Macnaghten, 1st Baronet, judg ...

(1793–1841), British diplomat killed in the First Anglo-Afghan War

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