Edmond Alexander MacNaghten

Not to be confused with his nephew Sir Edmund Workman-Macnaghten, 2nd Baronet, also an MP for Antrim.

Edmond Alexander MacNaghten (2 August 1762 – 15 March 1832)[1] was an Irish Tory politician from County Antrim. He sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1797 until the Act of Union in 1800, and then in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1830.

He was the oldest son of Edmund MacNaghten of Beardiville House (between Coleraine and Bushmills, County Antrim). His mother Hannah was a daughter of John Johnstone of Belfast. MacNaghten was educated at Glasgow University and at Lincoln's Inn.[2]

In the Irish House of Commons he sat for County Antrim from 1797 until the Union,[3] then he was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Antrim at Westminster until 1812.[1] From 1812 to 1826 he was an MP for Orford in Suffolk,[4] before sitting again for Antrim until 1830.[1]

MacNaghten was High Sheriff of County Antrim from 1793–4, became a trustee of the Irish Linen Board in 1810.[2] He was a Commissioner of the Treasury for Ireland from 1813–17, and for the United Kingdom from March 1819 to July 1830.[2]

In 1818 he was made chief of Clan MacNaghten.[2]

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