George Agar, 1st Baron Callan
PC (4 December 1751 – 29 October 1815) was an
Anglo-Irish
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politician and peer.
Agar was the third son of
James Agar, of Ringwood,
County Kilkenny
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, by the Honourable Rebecca Flower, daughter of
William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow
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Political career
He sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilkenny County from 1715 to 1727. Subsequently he represent ...
and Edith Caulfeild.
Ellis Bermingham, Countess of Brandon, was his aunt. His father was killed in a duel with
Henry Flood
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in 1769, the culmination of a long and bitter political feud. He was educated at
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and
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
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Agar was returned to the Irish House of Commons
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for Callan
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in 1776, a seat he held until 1790, and was admitted to the Irish Privy Council
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in 1789. In 1790 he was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland
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as Baron Callan, of Callan in the County of Kilkenny. In 1801 he was elected as one of the original 28 Irish Representative peers
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to sit in the British House of Lords
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Lord Callan never married and the title became extinct on his death in October 1815, aged 63.
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Agar
Agar ( or ), or agar-agar, is a jelly-like substance consisting of polysaccharides obtained from the cell walls of some species of red algae, primarily from ogonori (''Gracilaria'') and "tengusa" (''Gelidiaceae''). As found in nature, agar is ...
Agar
Agar ( or ), or agar-agar, is a jelly-like substance consisting of polysaccharides obtained from the cell walls of some species of red algae, primarily from ogonori (''Gracilaria'') and "tengusa" (''Gelidiaceae''). As found in nature, agar is ...
Agar
Agar ( or ), or agar-agar, is a jelly-like substance consisting of polysaccharides obtained from the cell walls of some species of red algae, primarily from ogonori (''Gracilaria'') and "tengusa" (''Gelidiaceae''). As found in nature, agar is ...
Members of the Irish House of Lords
Peers of Ireland created by George III