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]

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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]

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