Sir Edmund Charles Workman-Macnaghten, 2nd Baronet (1 April 1790 – 6 January 1876) was an Irish baronet and

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politician. He was a

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(MP) for Antrim from 1847 to 1852. He was the son of Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten, 1st Baronet, and his wife Laetitia Dunkin, daughter of

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. He was born in

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, and educated at

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and

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. He was called to the

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in 1818. He was then a master in chancery in Bengal.

Family

Workman-Macnaghten married in 1827 Mary Gwatkin, only child of Edward Gwatkin, and niece of

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. They had five sons and two daughters. * Francis Edmund, who became the 3rd Baronet. *

Edward Macnaghten, Baron 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 so ...

, second son, became a Lord of Appeal. *William, of the 1st Bengal Light Infantry *Fergus (died 1867), of the Bengal Civil Service *Charles Edmund of the

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, the youngest son, was killed on 17 March 1861 in the

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. *Mary, the elder daughter, died in 1857 at age 25. She has been associated with the early history from the 1850s of

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in the

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. *Octavia, married Colin Glencairn Campbell, son of Admiral Colin Campbell of Ardpatrick.

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* 1790 births 1876 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom UK MPs 1847–1852 Irish Conservative Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Antrim constituencies (1801–1922) People from County Antrim {{Conservative-UK-MP-1790s-stub