Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten

Edward Macnaghten in a caricature by Leslie Ward at the Vanity Fair (October 31, 1895)

Edward Macnaghten GCB GCMG PC (* 3. February 1830 in Bloomsbury , † 17th February 1913 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party and a lawyer , who several years deputy in the House of Commons , and most recently as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary due of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 when Life Peer was also a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Lawyer and Member of the House of Commons

Macnaghten, son of Sir Edmund Charles Workman-Macnaughton, 2nd Baronet, studied law at Trinity College (Dublin) and Trinity College at the University of Cambridge after attending school . As a student he took part in the Boat Race against the University of Oxford in 1852 . In 1857 he was admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Lincoln's Inn . He then took up a job as a barrister and received the title of Crown Attorney ( Queen's Counsel ) for legal services in 1880 .

On March 31, 1880, he was elected as a candidate for the Conservative Tories for the first time as a member of the House of Commons, where he initially represented the constituency of Antrim and lastly from November 30, 1885 to February 11, 1887, the constituency of Antrim North .

Lord Judge, House of Lords and Descendants

Last Macnaghten was a Letters Patent from January 25, 1887 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Macnaghten , of Runkerry in the County of Antrim for a member of the House of Lords in the nobility called and worked until his Death in 1913 as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ). At the same time he was also Privy Councilor in 1887 .

Lord Macnaghten, who was made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1902 and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1911, inherited his title of nobility as fourth on July 21, 1911 as the successor to his older brother. Baronet , of Dundarave in the County of Antrim. He also became a so-called "Bencher" and treasurer of the Lincoln's Inn Bar Association in 1907.

His marriage to Frances Arabella Martin in 1858, whose father Sir Samuel Martin was a judge at the Treasury Court of the Exchequer between 1850 and 1874 and whose grandfather Sir Frederick Pollock was President ( Lord Chief Baron ) of this court from 1844 to 1866 , resulted in a total of twelve children emerged. The eldest son, Sir Edward Charles Macnaghten, who was also a barrister, Crown Attorney and Bencher of the Lincoln's Inn Bar Association, followed him in 1913 as 5th Baronet, while the second and third sons Sir Francis Alexander Macnaghten and Sir Frederic Fergus Macnaghten later 8th and 9th. Were baronet. His fourth son, Sir Malcolm Martin Macnaghten, was a barrister, Crown Attorney and Bencher of the Lincoln's Inn Bar Association and a member of the House of Commons for several years. In addition, he was later from 1928 to 1947 Judge at the Chamber for Civil Matters ( King's Bench Division ) at the High Court of Justice responsible for England and Wales and was also Privy Councilor in 1948.

Publications

• A selection of Lord Macnaghten's judgments, 1887-1912 , posthumous, 1951

Web links

• Edward Macnaghten at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Lords of Appeal in Ordinary 1876-2009 in Peerages
• Proof of publication in the Open Library

predecessor	title	successor
Francis Workman-Macnaghten	Baronet, of Dundarave 1911-1913	Edward Macnaghten