Elliot Macnaghten
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elliot Macnaghten (1807–1888) J.P,[1] also known as Elliot Workman-Macnaghten, was a British official of the East India Company. He was its Chairman in 1855.[2]
He was later a Member of the Supreme Court in Calcutta and Vice President of the India Council.[3]
Macnaghten was the son of Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten of Bushmills House (1836), in the county of Antrim;[4] and was brother to 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.[3]
Macnaghten was a J.P. He lived at Ovingdean House, Sussex.[1]
