Edmund Workman-Macnaghten

Not to be confused with his uncle Edmond Alexander MacNaghten, also an MP for Antrim.

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]

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  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.