Arthur Robert Naghten (23 April 1829 – 7 August 1881)[1] was a British Conservative politician.[2]
He was the son of Thomas Naghten of Crofton House, Fareham, Hampshire and his wife Maria née Lang, they lived at Blighmont, Millbrook, Southampton.[3]
He was commissioned as a First Lieutenant in the Hampshire Militia Artillery on 3 September 1853 when the unit was first raised. He was promoted to Captain on 3 August 1859, and received the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on 14 April 1875. He resigned on 19 December 1877.[4]
He was elected MP for Winchester in 1874 but did not stand for re-election at the next election in 1880.[5]
References
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)
- ^ "Arthur Robert Naghten". The Peerage. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ UK Census of England 1871
- ^ J. Mouat F. Hunt, Records of the Artillery Militia Regiments of the County of Southampton from AD 1853 to 1894, London: Longmans, 1894, pp. 345, 352.
- ^ Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
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