Francis Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden (14 April 1883 – 15 July 1966), was a British
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politician.
Clifden was the second but eldest surviving son (his elder brother Captain the Hon.
Thomas Agar-Robartes
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having been killed in the
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Thomas Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden
Thomas Charles Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden (1 January 1844 – 19 July 1930), styled The Honourable Thomas Agar-Robartes between 1869 and 1882 and known as The Lord Robartes from 1882 to 1899, was a British landowner and Liberal politicia ...
, and his wife Mary (née Dickenson), and was educated at
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and
Christ Church, Oxford
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. In 1930 he succeeded his father in the viscountcy and to
Lanhydrock House
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and took his seat on the Liberal benches in the
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From 1940 to 1945 he served as a
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(government whip in the House of Lords) in
Winston Churchill
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's
coalition government
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In 1953 he donated the Lanhydrock House and approximately of parkland to the
National Trust
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Death
Lord Clifden died in July 1966, aged 83. He never married and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his younger brother
Arthur
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References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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Profile thepeerage.com; Retrieved 3 April 2016.
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1883 births
1966 deaths
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