Thomas James Agar-Robartes, 1st Baron Robartes (18 March 1808 – 9 March 1882), was a British politician. Lord Robartes Vanity Fair 4 February 1882

Background

Robartes was the son of the Hon. Charles Bagenal Agar, youngest son of

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. His mother was Anna Maria Hunt, heiress of

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, great-niece of Henry Robartes, 3rd Earl of Radnor and 4th Baron Robartes (which titles became extinct in 1757; see the

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1679 creation for more information). He adopted the Robartes name by warrant in 1822 and inherited the Lanhydrock estate. He commissioned the architect

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to renovate

Lanhydrock House Lanhydrock House, commonly known simply as Lanhydrock, is a country house and estate in the parish of Lanhydrock, Cornwall, UK. The great house stands in extensive grounds (360 hectares or 890 acres) above the River Fowey and it has been owned ...

but in 1881 it was badly damaged by a fire in which his wife died of smoke inhalation.

Political career

Robartes was returned to Parliament for Cornwall East in 1847, a seat he held until 1868. In 1869 the barony of Robartes held by his mother's ancestors was revived when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Robartes, of Lanhydrock, and of

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in the County of

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Family

Lord Robartes died at 1 Dean Street,

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, London on 9 March 1882, aged 73. He had married in 1839 Juliana Pole-Carew (1812–1881) of

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and had one son

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 politici ...

, who succeeded him in the barony and to Lanhydrock. In 1899 Thomas also succeeded his second cousin as the sixth Viscount Clifden.

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Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria