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'''Elliot Macnaghten''' (1807–1888)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thepeerage.com/p46162.htm#i461619 |title=Elliot MacNaghten |work=The Peerage |date=6 December 2011 }}</ref> J.P.,<ref name="Tcf" >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)[https://archive.org/stream/countyfamiliesof591919walf#page/882/mode/2up]</ref> also known as '''also known as Elliot Workman-Macnaghten''', was a British official of the [[East India Company]]. He was its Chairman in 1855.<ref name="TIl" >[https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The_India_list_and_India_Office_list&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7wA_T_fJGYuxhAfOhJW4BQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The_India_list_and_India_Office_list&f=false The India list and India Office list]</ref>

He was later a Member of the Supreme Court in Calcutta and Vice President of the [[Council of India|India Council]].<ref name="DIB" >[[s:Dictionary of Indian Biography/Macnaghten, Elliot]]</ref>

==Personal background==
Macnaghten was the son of [[Macnaghten Baronets|Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten, knt.]] (later Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten, 1st Baronet) of Bushmills House (1836), in the county of Antrim;<ref>A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great ..., Volume 2 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0I9AAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA307]</ref> and was brother to [[William Hay Macnaghten|Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 1st Baronet (1840)]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thepeerage.com/p46163.htm#i461621 |title=Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten, 1st Bt. |work=The Peerage |date=17 July 2012 }}</ref> and [[Macnaghten Baronets|Sir Edmund Charles Workman-Macnaghten, 2nd Baronet (1836)]] of Bushmills House. He was educated at [[Rugby School]].<ref name="DIB"/>

Macnaghten was a J.P. He lived at Ovingdean House, Sussex.<ref name="Tcf" />

==Career==
Macnaghten was a member of the Supreme Court in Calcutta and was one of the original members of the [[Council of India|India Council]] in 1858 and Vice President in 1866.<ref name="DIB" />

He was elected a Director of the Court of the [[East India Company]] in 1842 and in 1855 was Chairman.<ref name="TIl" />

==Family==
Macnaghten married, firstly, Isabella (died 1871) only daughter of John Law.<ref name="Tcf" /> He was father of:

* Chester Macnaghten, fourth son (born 1843), the first Principal of the [[Rajkumar College, Rajkot|Rajkumar College]].<ref>{{acad|id=rMNTN861C|name=Macnaghten, Chester}}</ref>
* Henry Alexander Macnaghten, fifth son (born 1850), cleric.<ref>{{acad|id=MNTN868HA|name=Macnaghten, Henry Alexander}}</ref>
* [[Melville Macnaghten|Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten]], sixth son (born 1853).<ref name="Tcf" /><ref>{{acad|id=MNTN872ML|name=Macnaghten, Melville Leslie}}</ref>

He married, secondly, in 1872, Annie Chester, daughter of George Chester of the [[Bengal Civil Service]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage |date=1878 |page=314 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RQ82AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA314 |language=en}}</ref>

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