Elliot Macnaghten

Elliot Macnaghten (1807–1888) J.P, also known as Elliot Workman-Macnaghten, was a British official of the East India Company. He was its Chairman in 1855.

He was later a Member of the Supreme Court in Calcutta and Vice President of the India Council.

Personal background Macnaghten was the son of Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten of Bushmills House (1836), in the county of Antrim; 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. after his tutorship of Lakshmeshwar Singh, 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.

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 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.