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Macnaghten Memorandum
Macnaghten may refer to: * Clan Macnaghten *Daniel M'Naghten, namesake of the M'Naghten rules *Edward Macnaghten *Elliot Macnaghten *Half Hung MacNaghten * Macnaghten Baronets *Melville Macnaghten *William Hay Macnaghten (1793-1841), killed in the First Anglo-Afghan War See also * Macnaughtan Macnaughtan is a Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alan MacNaughtan (1920–2002), Scottish actor *Andrew MacNaughtan Andrew Neil MacNaughtan (25 February 196425 January 2012) was a Canadian photographer and music vid ... * McNaughton {{Disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel M'Naghten
Daniel M'Naghten (sometimes spelled McNaughtan or McNaughton) (1813 – 3 May 1865) was a Scottish woodturner who assassinated English civil servant Edward Drummond while suffering from paranoid delusions. Through his trial and its aftermath, he has given his name to the legal test of criminal insanity in England and other common law jurisdictions known as the M'Naghten rules.R MoraDaniel (1802/3–1865)'' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008. Life Name and spelling There is disagreement over how M'Naghten's name should be spelt (Mc or M' at the beginning, au or a in the middle, a, e, o or u at the end). M'Naghten is favoured in both English and American law reports, although the original trial report used M'Naughton; Bethlem and Broadmoor records use McNaughton and McNaughten.BL Diamond 1964 on the spelling of Daniel M'Naghten's name. ''Ohio State Law Journal'' 25(1). Reprinted in DJ West and A Walk (eds) 1977 ''Danie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Macnaghten
Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten, (3 February 1830 – 17 February 1913) was an Anglo-Irish law lord, barrister, rower, and Conservative- Unionist politician. Early life and rowing Macnaghten was born in Bloomsbury, London, the second son of Sir Edmund Workman-Macnaghten, Bt., but grew up mainly at Roe Park, Limavady. He attended school in Sunderland and university at Trinity College Dublin and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1852. At Cambridge, he was secretary of the Pitt Club. Macnaghten was a rower at Cambridge. In 1851, he was runner up to E. G. Peacock in the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta, but avenged this the following year with a win. Macnaghten rowed bow for Cambridge in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race in 1852 which was won by Oxford. Also in 1852, he turned the tables on Peacock to win the Diamond Challenge Sculls from him at Henley. Legal and political career After being called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1857 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliot Macnaghten
Elliot Macnaghten (1807–1888) J.P.,The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland .. (Volume ed.59, yr.191/ref> also known as 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. s:Dictionary of Indian Biography/Macnaghten, Elliot Personal background 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 (1836) of Bushmills House, a barrister, a master in chancery in Bengal. He was educated at Rugby School. Macnaghten was a J.P. He lived at Ovingdean House, Sussex. Career Macnaghten was a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Half Hung MacNaghten
John MacNaghten (1722–1761), known as Half-Hanged MacNaghten, was an Anglo-Irish land owner, gambler and convicted murderer. The more romantic versions of the tale portray MacNaghten's victim Mary Ann as his lover whose marriage was forbidden by her over-bearing father. Life MacNaghten was born into a landed Anglo-Irish family and attended Raphoe Royal school in County Donegal. In 1740, he inherited his family estate worth £500 a year and that same year entered Trinity College, Dublin. MacNaghten married the sister-in-law of the first earl of Massereene. However, he was quickly enamoured of the extravagant lifestyle of Ascendancy Dublin where he became a popular and colourful character. He developed an addiction to gambling and squandered away a large part of his inheritance, running up substantial gaming debts and by 1750 was threatened with arrest. Following the death of his wife in childbirth, he was appointed to the lucrative post of tax collector for Coleraine but ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melville Macnaghten
Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten (16 June 1853, Woodford, London −12 May 1921) was Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police from 1903 to 1913. A highly regarded and famously affable figure of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras he played major investigative roles in cases that led to the establishment and acceptance of fingerprint identification. He was also a major player in the pursuit and capture of Dr. Crippen, and of the exoneration of a wrongly convicted man, Adolph Beck, which helped lead to the creation of the Court of Criminal Appeal in 1907. When he prematurely retired in 1913 due to illness, Macnaghten claimed to journalists that he knew the exact identity of Jack the Ripper, the nickname of the unknown serial killer of poor prostitutes in London's impoverished East End during the late Victorian era. The police chief called the killer "that remarkable man", but refused to name him or divulge details that might identify him, except to reveal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hay Macnaghten
Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 1st Baronet (24 August 179323 December 1841), was a British civil servant in India, who played a major part in the First Anglo-Afghan War. Life William was the second son of Sir Francis Macnaghten, Bart., judge of the supreme courts of Madras and Calcutta, and was educated at Charterhouse. He went to Madras as a cadet in 1809, but in 1816 joined the Bengal Civil Service. He displayed a talent for languages and published several treatises on Hindu and Islamic law. His political career began in 1830 as secretary to Lord William Bentinck; and in 1837 he became one of the most trusted advisers of the governor-general, Lord Auckland, with whose policy of supporting Shah Shuja against Dost Mahommed Khan, the reigning amir of Kabul, Macnaghten became closely identified. He was created a baronet in 1840, and four months before his death was nominated to the governorship of Bombay. As a political agent at Kabul, he came into conflict with the military authori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macnaughtan
Macnaughtan is a Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alan MacNaughtan (1920–2002), Scottish actor *Andrew MacNaughtan Andrew Neil MacNaughtan (25 February 196425 January 2012) was a Canadian photographer and music video director. Work MacNaughtan won four Juno Awards for his work as a photographer, director and album art designer, including three wins for CD ... (1964–2012), Canadian photographer and music video director * Sarah Broom Macnaughtan (1864–1916), Scottish-born novelist See also * Macnaghten (other) * McNaughton, a surname {{surname, Macnaughtan Anglicised Scottish Gaelic-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
