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James Agar (1672-1733)
James Agar is the name of: * James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (1735–1788), Irish peer and politician * James Agar, 3rd Earl of Normanton (1818–1896), British Conservative Party politician * James Agar (1672–1733), Irish politician * James Agar (1713–1769) James Agar was an Irish politician. He was a litigious and hot-tempered man, whose bitter feud with a rival political faction led to his being killed in a duel. He was the father of the first and last Baron Callan.Andrews, Helen "Agar, James" '' ..., Irish politician * James Agar (priest) (1781–1866), Anglican priest in Ireland {{hndis, name=Agar, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden
James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (25 March 1734 – 1 January 1789), was an Irish peer and politician and held the office of one of the joint Postmasters General of Ireland. Family He was the second son of Henry Agar, a former MP for Gowran, and Anne Ellis, daughter of Welbore Ellis, Bishop of Meath, and was probably born at Gowran Castle on 25 March 1734. On 20 March 1760 James married Lucia Martin, daughter of John Martin and widow of Henry Boyle-Walsingham. Together they had three children; Henry-Welbore, John Ellis, b. 31 December 1763, and Charles-Bagnell, b. 13 August 1765. Agar was made a Baron Clifden on 27 July 1776 and Viscount Clifden on 12 January 1781 and on 13 August 1794 became Baron Mendip. He died on 1 January 1789 when his eldest son became the second viscount and Baron Mendip. His widow died in 1802. Agar's younger brothers were Charles Agar, first Earl of Normanton (1736–1809), who became the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, and Welbore Ellis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Agar, 3rd Earl Of Normanton
James Charles Herbert Welbore Ellis Agar, 3rd Earl of Normanton DL (17 September 1818 – 19 December 1896), styled Viscount Somerton from birth until 1868, was a Conservative and later Peelite member of parliament in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before inheriting an Irish earldom and large estates in Ireland and Hampshire. In 1873 he was created a baron in the peerage of the United Kingdom, giving him a seat in the House of Lords. Life Born in 1818 at Ditchley House, Oxfordshire, "Normanton, 3rd Earl of" in ''Dod’s Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland for 1870''p. 479/ref> he was the eldest son of Welbore Ellis Agar, 2nd Earl of Normanton, and Lady Diana Herbert, a daughter of George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was president of the University Pitt Club. At an unopposed by-election in 1841, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Wilton, a constituency where the Earls o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Agar (1672–1733)
James Agar was an Irish politician. He was the son of Charles Agar, an Englishman who acquired lands in County Kilkenny, including Gowran Castle. His mother was Ellis Blanchville, daughter of Peter Blanchville of Kilkenny. He was MP for Old Leighlin in County Carlow from 1703 to 1713; Gowran in County Kilkenny from 1713 to 1714; Callan in County Kilkenny from 1715 to 1727; and St Canice in County Kilkenny from 1727 to 1733."Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p8: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 He married firstly Susannah Alexander, and secondly Mary Wemyss, daughter of Sir Henry Wemyss of Danesfort. By his second wife, he had at least four children, including Henry Agar, James Agar, and Ellis (Elizabeth) Bermingham, Countess of Brandon in her own right. Both Henry and James, after Henry's death, sat in the Irish House of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Agar (1713–1769)
James Agar was an Irish politician. He was a litigious and hot-tempered man, whose bitter feud with a rival political faction led to his being killed in a duel. He was the father of the first and last Baron Callan.Andrews, Helen "Agar, James" ''Cambridge Dictionary of Irish Biography'' Career Agar was the second son of James Agar of Gowran Castle, County Kilkenny, and his second wife Mary Wemyss, daughter of Sir Henry Wemyss. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. From 1747 to 1760, he was MP for Gowran in County Kilkenny, having in effect inherited the seat, which had been held by his father and his brother Henry Agar. His relations with Henry were poor, and resulted in an unsuccessful legal action by James against Henry. In 1761 he was MP for Callan in Kilkenny; and in 1768, Tulsk in County Roscommon. Duel and death The following year he was killed in a duel with Henry Flood, who was both a bitter political rival for control of the borough of Callan, Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |