Magens Dorrien Magens (ca 1762[1] – 30 May 1849) of Hammerwood Lodge, East Sussex, was an English banker, Member of Parliament and author.
He adopted the surname of his uncle Nicholas Magens by special licence on 16 December 1788, after his marriage.
[2] He was born the third son of John Dorrien (-1784), a merchant banker, originally from Hamburg, and East India Company director of London and Great Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire.
[2][3] Their children were Cecilia, George William, Maria, and Anne Frances.
Re-elected for Ludgershall in 1812, in December of that year he became Steward of the Manor of East Hendred, a notional "office of profit under the Crown" which was used as a device for resigning from the House of Commons.