The Right Honourable
Sir Malcolm Macnaghten
KBE
Justice of the High Court

Sir Malcolm Martin Macnaghten, KBE (12 January 1869 – 24 January 1955), was an Irish Unionist politician and judge, the fourth son of Lord Macnaghten.[1]

Biography

Malcolm Macnaghten was educated at Eton before going up to read History at Trinity College, Cambridge, being elected President of the Cambridge Union in 1890 before graduating with 1st class honours.[2] A Cambridge Apostle, he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1894, becoming a Bencher in 1915 and King's Counsel (KC) in 1919.[3]

Macnaghten sat as Member of Parliament for North Londonderry in 1922 and then for Londonderry from 1922 to 1929. He was Recorder of Colchester from 1924 to 1928,[4] and a Judge of the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division from 1928 to 1947.[5]

Knighted (KBE) in the 1920 New Year Honours for services during World War I as Director of the Foreign Claims Office[6] and appointed a Privy Counsellor in the 1948 New Year Honours,[7] Macnaghten was Commissary of the University of Cambridge from 1926. He married Antonia the eldest daughter of social reformer Charles Booth and had three daughters, all of whom became socialists and married communists including the artist Peter Laszlo Peri, and one son.

He kept a house at Campden Hill Court, London W8, as well as an Irish residence: The End House, Portballintrae, County Antrim.

Macnaghten died in 1955, aged 86.[1]

Arms

Coat of arms of Sir Malcolm Macnaghten
Crest
A Castle embattled Gules
Helm
That of a Knight
Escutcheon
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent a dexter Hand couped fesswise Proper holding a Cross Crosslet fitchée Azure; 2nd and 3rd, Argent a Castle embattled Gules
Motto
I Hope In God
Orders
Circlet of the Order of the British Empire

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Death of Sir Malcolm Martin Macnaughten". Belfast Newsletter. 25 January 1955. p. 4.
  2. ↑ "Macnaghten, Malcolm Martin (MNTN888MM)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ↑ "No. 31279". The London Gazette. 8 April 1919. p. 44568.
  4. ↑ "No. 32901". The London Gazette. 25 January 1924. p. 771.
  5. ↑ "No. 33448". The London Gazette. 18 December 1928. p. 8325.
  6. ↑ "No. 13582". The Edinburgh Gazette (Supplement). 1 April 1920. p. 895.
  7. ↑ "No. 38161". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1947. p. 1.

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