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

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and later

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member of parliament in the

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before inheriting an Irish earldom and large estates in Ireland and Hampshire. In 1873 he was created a baron in the

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, giving him a seat in the House of Lords.

Life

Born in 1818 at

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, "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 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 Charle ...

, and Lady Diana Herbert, a daughter of

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. He was educated at

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, where he was president of the

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. At an unopposed by-election in 1841, he was elected as

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for Wilton, a constituency where the Earls of Pembroke had great influence, and was re-elected unopposed as a

at the general election of 1847. He stood down from the

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at the election of 1852. In 1851 he was commissioned as a lieutenant into the Wiltshire Yeomanry. In 1868, he succeeded his father as

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. As well as his country house in Hampshire,

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, he had a

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at 3, Seamore Place,

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. Both had belonged to the 2nd Earl of Normanton in 1830. As an Irish peer, Normanton did not have a seat in the House of Lords, unless elected as an

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, which he never was. However, in 1873 he was created Baron Somerton of Somerley, in the

, giving him a seat in the Lords which would be inherited by his successors.

Children

In 1856 Normanton married Caroline Susan Augusta Barrington, a daughter of

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, and they had many children, including: *Caroline Elizabeth (21 Mar 1857 - 9 May 1894), who married

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. They had one son, and daughter. *Lt. Charles George Welbore Ellis Agar, Viscount Somerton (27 Apr 1858 - 17 Jan 1894). Died unmarried. *Lady Mary Beatrice (10 Aug 1859 - 20 Dec 1943). Died unmarried *Lady Margaret Elizabeth Diana (10 Dec 1863 - 29 Mar 1941) married Hon. Ivan Campbell, son of

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, and brother of

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. They had one son, Iain. *

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 Ear ...

(9 Apr 1865 - 25 Nov 1933) married Lady Amy Frederica Alice Byng, daughter of

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and Countess Henrietta Danneskjold-Samsöe (daughter of

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). They had one son, and seven daughters. *Lady Mary Adelaide (18 Aug 1869 - 7 June 1921) married Henry St. George Foley, son of Gen. Sir St. George Foley. They had one son,

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and one daughter, Mildred. *Hon. Henry Augustus Bernard (21 Nov 1870 - 25 Apr 1885). Died unmarried. *Hon. Francis William Arthur (19 Oct 1873 - 18 Aug 1936) married Laura Astley Kennard, daughter of Henry Steinmetz Kennard. They had one son, and one daughter.

References

External links

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