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    Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 1st Baronet (24 August 1793 – 23 December 1841), was a British civil servant in India, who played a major part in the First...
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    الترجمة في الآدب المقارن. Al Manhal. p. 170. ISBN 9796500054087. William Hay Macnaghten, ed. (1839). The Alif laila. Vol. 1. Calcutta, W. Thacker and co...
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    Macnaghten, of Runkerry in the County of Antrim. Both the sixth and seventh Baronets were killed in the First World War. Also William Hay Macnaghten was...
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  • of Antrim; and was brother to Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 1st Baronet (1840) and Sir Edmund Charles Workman-Macnaghten, 2nd Baronet (1836) of Bushmills...
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    Willoughby Cotton and then by William Elphinstone) set out from Punjab in December 1838. With them was William Hay Macnaghten, the former chief secretary...
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    political officer, who perished at the hands of an Afghan mob; Sir William Hay Macnaghten, the head of the ill-fated British Mission in Kabul (and a scholar...
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    though in practice, among some communities, nothing is so common." — William Hay Macnaghten (1862) "The problem of widows—and especially of child widows—was...
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  • Secretariat, in which he served in several departments under Sir William Hay Macnaghten. In 1839 he assisted James Hume in the editing of the Eastern Star...
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    meeting with the Afghan general Akbar Khan, British diplomat Sir William Hay Macnaghten is shot dead at close quarters. John Augustus develops the concept...
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    took energetic measures. On 23 December the British envoy, Sir William Hay Macnaghten, was murdered at Kabul; and, in February 1842, the commander-in-chief...
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    of Kabul, but the viceroy preferred to follow the opinion of Sir William Hay Macnaghten and reinstated Shah Shuja, thus leading to the outbreak of the First...
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  • (1948–2019), Jamaican cricketer William Hay Macnaghten (1793–1841), Anglo-Indian civil servant William Hays (disambiguation) William Hayes (disambiguation) This...
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    under Brigadier MacLaren but it was turned back by heavy snowfalls. William Hay Macnaghten, the Minister to Shah Shujah's court, attempted to sow dissension...
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  • to be one of the bravest officers amongst the British in Kabul. William Hay Macnaghten - Head political agent at Kabul, Flashman is present at his assassination...
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    Frances Macnaghten, daughter of John Livingstone Martyn and widow of (i) Lieutenant-Colonel James McClintock of the Bombay Army and (ii) Sir William Hay Macnaghten...
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    the Russians. Lord Auckland followed the counsel of his adviser William Hay Macnaghten to support Shuja Shah, dismissing the advice of Alexander Burnes...
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    until 1708. During the Governorships of John Gayer, Nicholas Waite, and William Aislabie (1694–1715), the Bombay Governors also held the title of "General"...
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    Municipal Council from 1930 to 1932. Macnaghten was born 11 September 1872 in India, the son of William Hay Macnaghten and Alice Ellen Brander. He was educated...
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    the behaviour of British Officers, and particularly Sir William Hay Macnaghten and General William Elphinstone. Mohan Lal had learned Persian in Delhi and...
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  • Practitioners of Hindu Law: Ancient and Modern Fordham Law Review William Hay Macnaghten, Principles and Precedents of Hindu Law – Mitakshara, p. PA109,...
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  • emissary from Kashmir and meets British Empire representatives William Hay Macnaghten and Francis Cotton, the latter of whom is a Templar also seeking...
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  • the Shah was a mere figurehead, with real policy control with Sir William Hay Macnaghten and other British officers. In addition, the British garrison in...
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    However, when Harlan returned to Kabul the British forces with William Hay Macnaghten arrived to occupy the city in an early stage of the First Anglo-Afghan...
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  • (1974–1984) Evan MacGregor (1842–1926), British civil servant Sir William Hay Macnaghten (1793–1841), Chief Secretary, Indian Secret and Political Department...
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  • among them William Hay Macnaghten. When Dunkin clashed with William Burroughs, attorney-general in Bengal from 1792, Francis Macnaghten tried to challenge...
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  • Elliot Drinkwater Bethune (died 1851) Neil O'Brien (died 2016) William Hay Macnaghten Heinrich Blochmann (1838-1878), philologist John Sarkar. "Burial...
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  • a meeting with the Afghan general Akbar Khan, the diplomat Sir William Hay Macnaghten is shot dead at close quarters. Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross...
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  • begin negotiations with the Afghan side. The British emissary, Sir William Hay Macnaghten, was killed two weeks into the negotiations and on 6 January the...
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    returning to Kabul, Lawrence became political assistant to Sir William Hay Macnaghten, the envoy of Afghanistan, and subsequently his military secretary...
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