Edmund Workman-Macnaghten

Sir Edmund Charles Workman-Macnaghten, 2nd Baronet (1 April 1790 – 6 January 1876) was an Irish baronet[1] and Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Antrim from 1847 to 1852.[2]

He was the son of Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten, 1st Baronet, and his wife Laetitia Dunkin, daughter of Sir William Dunkin. He was born in Dublin, and educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Dublin. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1818.[3][4] He was then a master in chancery in Bengal.[5]

Family

Workman-Macnaghten married in 1827 Mary Gwatkin, only child of Edward Gwatkin, and niece of Robert Lovell Gwatkin.[3][6] They had five sons and two daughters.[5][7]

References

  1. Leigh Rayment's list of baronets – Baronetcies beginning with "M" (part 1)
  2. Charles H. E. Philpin (8 August 2002). Nationalism and Popular Protest in Ireland. Cambridge University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-521-52501-5.
  3. Dod, Charles Roger; Dod, Robert Phipps (1847). "Dod's Parliamentary Companion". Internet Archive. London: Dod's ParliamentaryCompanion Ltd., Whittaker & Co. p. 201. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
  4. Debrett, John (1840). The Baronetage of England, revised, corrected and continued by G. W. Collen. p. 366.
  5. John Bernard Burke (1845). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. H. Colburn. p. 1065.
  6. Burke, Ashworth Peter (1897). "Family Records". Internet Archive. London: Harrison. p. 289. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
  7. Edmund Burke (1877). The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year. Longmans, Green. p. 131.
  8. "Arrangements for This Day". Morning Post. 28 April 1885. p. 5. Retrieved 27 June 2016 via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. "Macnaghten, Edward (MNTN847E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  10. The Gentleman's Magazine. F. Jefferies. 1861. p. 94.
  11. The Examiner. John Hunt. 1857. p. 324.
  12. "Croquet (from Fr. trot... - Online Information article about CROQUET (from Fr. trot..." Retrieved 23 June 2016.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Horace Seymour
Nathaniel Alexander
Member of Parliament for Antrim
18471852
With: Nathaniel Alexander
Succeeded by
George Macartney
Edward William Pakenham
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Francis Workman-Macnaghten
Baronet
(of Bushmills House, Antrim)
1843–1876
Succeeded by
Francis Edmund Workman-Macnaghten


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