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Agar (name)
Agar is both a surname and a given name. People with the surname * Alf Agar (1904–1989), English footballer *Allan Agar (born 1949) (father of Richard Agar), English rugby league footballer and coach * Andrew Agar (cricketer) (born 1956), English cricketer *Ashton Agar (born 1993), Australian cricketer *Augustus Agar (1890–1968), British Royal Navy commodore and recipient of the Victoria Cross * Bernice Agar (1885–1976), Australian photographer * Carl Agar (1901–1968), Canadian pioneering aviator * Charles Agar (other), several people *Charles d'Agar (1669–1723), French painter *Edward Agar, 5th Earl of Normanton (1910–1967), a British and Irish peer and landowner *Eileen Agar (1899–1991), Argentine-born British painter and photographer *George Agar, 1st Baron Callan (1751–1815), Irish politician * George Agar (rugby league) (1902–1966), Australian rugby league footballer *Herbert Agar (1897–1980), American journalist and editor, and Pulitzer Prize winne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf Agar
Alfred Agar (28 August 1904 – 1989) was an English association football, footballer. He played for Esh Winning F.C., Esh Winning, Shildon A.F.C., Shildon, West Stanley F.C., West Stanley, Dundee F.C., Dundee, Barrow A.F.C., Barrow, Carlisle United F.C., Carlisle United, Accrington Stanley F.C. (1891), Accrington Stanley, Oldham Athletic A.F.C., Oldham Athletic, York City F.C., York City and Scarborough F.C., Scarborough. Notes 1904 births 1989 deaths English men's footballers Men's association football forwards Esh Winning F.C. players Shildon A.F.C. players West Stanley F.C. players Dundee F.C. players Barrow A.F.C. players Carlisle United F.C. players Accrington Stanley F.C. (1891) players Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players York City F.C. players Scarborough F.C. players English Football League players People from Esh Winning Footballers from County Durham Date of death missing {{England-footy-forward-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Agar
John George Agar Jr. (January 31, 1921 – April 7, 2002) was an American film and television actor. He is best known for starring alongside John Wayne in the films ''Sands of Iwo Jima'', '' Fort Apache'', and ''She Wore a Yellow Ribbon''. In his later career he was the star of B movies, such as ''Tarantula!'', ''The Mole People'', '' The Brain from Planet Arous'', ''Revenge of the Creature'', ''Flesh and the Spur'' and '' Hand of Death''. He was the first husband of Shirley Temple. Agar's career suffered in the wake of his divorce, but he developed a niche playing leading men in low-budget science fiction, Western, and horror movies in the 1950s and 1960s. John Wayne gave him several supporting roles in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In later years he worked extensively in television. Early life and military service Agar was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lillian (née Rogers) and John George Agar, a meat packer. His great aunt was Edna Gladney. He was educated at the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfred Eade Agar
Wilfred Eade Agar FRS (27 April 1882 – 14 July 1951) was an Anglo-Australian zoologist. Agar was born in Wimbledon, England. He was educated at Sedbergh School, Yorkshire, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he read zoology. He served at Gallipoli in World War I. In 1919, he accepted the chair of zoology at the University of Melbourne; his notable projects concerned marsupial chromosomes and inheritance in cattle. He successfully challenged the Lamarckian findings of William McDougall relating to the inheritance of the effects of training in rats. In 1938 Agar was elected president of the Eugenics Society of Victoria. He said "it was a disastrous state of affairs that size of families was usually in inverse ratio to intelligence." Agar was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1944 and elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. Agar Street in the Canberra suburb of Bruce The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wes Agar
Wesley Austin Agar (born 5 February 1997) is an Australian cricketer. He is a fast bowler who has played for Australia's national youth team, and has played first-class and List A cricket for South Australia and Twenty20s for the Adelaide Strikers. He is the younger brother of fellow Australian international cricketer, Ashton Agar. He made his international debut for Australia in July 2021. Agar spent his childhood in Victoria but moved to South Australia to seek more opportunities. He represented the state at under-19 level and was named in Australia's national under-19 squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup before Australia pulled out of the tournament. He had a rookie contract with South Australia and played his first matches at state level in the 2016–17 Matador BBQs One-Day Cup, after which he also signed with the Adelaide Strikers to play in the Big Bash League. In 2017, he was not given another contract with South Australia and returned to Victoria. Agar retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welbore Ellis Agar, 2nd Earl Of Normanton
Welbore Ellis Agar, 2nd Earl of Normanton (12 November 1778 — 26 August 1868) was an Irish peer and landowner, of Anglo-Irish origins, who spent most of his life in England, where he acquired the Somerley estate in 1825. His father was Charles Agar, Bishop of Cloyne, who was later created Earl of Normanton in the peerage of Ireland and ended his career as Archbishop of Dublin. His father was the third son of Henry Agar of Gowran Castle, County Kilkenny and his wife Anne Ellis, a daughter of Welbore Ellis, Bishop of Meath. His mother was Jane Benson, daughter of William Benson, of Downpatrick, County Down.''Burke's Peerage'', volume 2 (2003), pp. 2923–2924 Agar may have been named for a prosperous uncle, Welbore Ellis Agar, who at the time of his birth had been married for some nine years but had no children. On 14 July 1809, Agar succeeded his father as Earl of Normanton, Viscount Somerton, and Baron Somerton in the peerage of Ireland. On 17 May 1816, Normanton married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HM Revenue And Customs
HM Revenue and Customs (His Majesty's Revenue and Customs, or HMRC) is a non-ministerial government department, non-ministerial Departments of the United Kingdom Government, department of the His Majesty's Government, UK Government responsible for the tax collection, collection of Taxation in the United Kingdom, taxes, the payment of some forms of Welfare state in the United Kingdom, state support, the administration of other regulatory Regime#Politics, regimes including the national minimum wage and the issuance of national insurance numbers. HMRC was formed by the merger of the Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise, which took effect on 18 April 2005. The department's logo is the St Edward's Crown enclosed within a circle. Prior to the Elizabeth II, Queen's death on 8 September 2022, the department was known as ''Her'' Majesty's Revenue and Customs and has since been amended to reflect the change of monarch. Departmental responsibilities The department is responsible for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welbore Ellis Agar
Welbore Ellis Agar FRS (1735 – 30 October 1805) was an Anglo-Irish gentleman, senior officer of HM Revenue and Customs, and art collector, who lived most of his life in Mayfair, Westminster. Life Agar was the middle son of Henry Agar of Gowran Castle, County Kilkenny, and his wife Anne Ellis, a daughter of Welbore Ellis, Bishop of Meath. His elder brother became James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden, while his younger brother was Charles Agar, a clergyman who as Bishop of Cloyne was created Earl of Normanton in the peerage of Ireland and ended his career as Archbishop of Dublin. Agar was educated at Westminster School between 1747 and about 1754.Lyons, p. 176 After leaving school, he joined HM Revenue and Customs, which gave him a career with good prospects. Lyons, p. 177 Agar lived most of his adult life in Mayfair, and his early years in the metropolis were colourful. He has been identified as the "rich and jovial libertine" called "Sir Edgar", the "Chevalier Egard", or "Egard" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney James Agar, 4th Earl Of Normanton
Sidney James Agar, 4th Earl of Normanton (9 April 1865 – 25 November 1933) was a British and Irish peer and landowner, a member of the House of Lords from 1896 until his death. The second son of James Charles Herbert Welbore Ellis Agar, 3rd Earl of Normanton, and his wife Caroline Susan Augusta Barrington, a daughter of Lord Barrington, he was educated at Eton College. On 17 January 1894 his older brother, Charles George Welbore Ellis Agar, Viscount Somerton (born 1858) died unmarried, leaving him as the heir, and on 3 November 1894, shortly after gaining the courtesy title of Viscount Somerton, he married Lady Amy Frederica Alice Byng, a daughter of Henry Byng, 4th Earl of Strafford, and Countess Henrietta Danneskjold-Samsöe. On 19 December 1896, he succeeded his father as Earl of Normanton, Viscount Somerton, and Baron Somerton, all in the peerage of Ireland, and as Baron Somerton of Somerley in the peerage of the United Kingdom. The last of these gave him a seat in the House ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Agar, 6th Earl Of Normanton
Shaun James Christian Welbore Ellis Agar, 6th Earl of Normanton (21 August 1945 – 13 February 2019) was an Irish and British peer, soldier, landowner, and powerboat racer. From birth until 1967 he was known by the courtesy title of Viscount Somerton. As Baron Somerton of Somerley and later as Baron Mendip he was a member of the House of Lords from 1967 until the reform of the Lords in 1999. Early life Normanton was the elder son of Edward John Sidney Christian Welbore Ellis Agar, 5th Earl of Normanton, and his wife Lady Fiona Pratt, a daughter of John Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden, who had previously been married to Sir John Gerard Henry Fleetwood Fuller, 2nd Baronet.''Burke's Peerage'', volume 2 (2003), p. 2923 He had two half-brothers, John Fuller (1936–1998) and Anthony Fuller (born 1940). He was educated at Eton and Aiglon College in Switzerland and trained as a cavalry officer at the Mons Officer Cadet School.''The London Gazette'', Issue 43649 (Supplement), 14 May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Agar
Nicholas Agar (born 1965) is a New Zealand professor of ethics at the University of Waikato. Agar has a BA from the University of Auckland, an MA from the Victoria University of Wellington, and a PhD from the Australian National University. He has been teaching at Victoria since 1996. Work on human enhancement Agar has written extensively on the debate about human enhancement and eugenics. His first significant contribution was the 2004 book ''Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement''. In the state-sponsored eugenics defended by the followers of Francis Galton individuals would defer to the state and its experts empowered to impose on all a centrally-determined conception of the good life. Agar argued that a vigorous defense of procreative freedom could turn the morally misguided authoritarian eugenics into a morally defensible liberal eugenics. Agar would encourage prospective parents to consult their own conceptions of the good life to choose some of their children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Agar
Nathan "Nat" Agar (July 26, 1887 – June 24, 1978) was an English-American soccer player, coach, referee, team owner and league executive. He was part of the formation of the United States Football Association, but later fought it as a team owner and league official of the American Soccer League and Southern New York State Football Association during the 1928 "Soccer War." He also coached three United States national team games against Canada in 1925 and 1926. Early career At some point in the early 1900s, Agar immigrated to the United States from his native England. In 1905, he founded his first team, Critchleys. In 1906, he was instrumental in the founding of the New York Amateur Association Football League. Agar was elected as the league's secretary, a position he held until at least 1911. He was also president of the league in 1910. In January 1909, Agar broke his leg while challenging for the ball. He remained with Critchleys until it folded following the 1912–13 season. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmet Ağar
Mehmet Kemal Ağar (born on 30 October 1951) is a Turkish former police chief, politician, government minister and leader of the Democratic Party. He was a police officer who rose to General Director of the General Directorate of Security (effectively national police chief), serving from 1993 to 1995, before entering parliament and serving as a government minister in 1996. After being sentenced to several years in prison for criminal activities relating to the Susurluk scandal, he was released on probation in April 2013. Background and personal life Mehmet Ağar was born on October 30, 1951, at the state president's official residence Çankaya Köşkü in Ankara, where his father was serving as security. During his youth, he toured several places across the country due to his father's position as police chief. He began his high school education in Ankara, continued in Haydarpaşa High School in Istanbul finishing in 1968. He studied finance in the School of Political Science at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
