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Biography
Elliot Macnaghten (1807–1888) J.P. was a Member of the Supreme Court in Calcutta and Vice President of the India Council. He was Chairman of the East India Company in 1855.
Personal background
He was also known as Elliot Workman-Macnaghten.
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. Elliot Macnaghten was brother to Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 1st Baronet (1840) and Sir Edmund Charles Workman-Macnaghten, 2nd Baronet (1836) of Bushmills House.
Elliot Macnaghten was a J.P. He lived at Ovingdean House, Sussex. Macnaghten married 1st Isabella, (who died 1871) only daughter of John Law.
Macnaghten was father of Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten, Chester Macnaghten, the first Principal of the Rajkumar College, Rajkot where he taught and influenced 170 royals of The Princely Order of Western India.
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 East India Company in 1842 and in 1855 was Chairman.