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

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Background and education

Agar-Robartes was born at

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, the son of

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. He was educated at Harrow and

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, and was

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at the

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in 1870. On the death of his father in 1882 he inherited the

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estate in Cornwall and arranged for

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to be rebuilt following a fire in 1881 that had killed his mother. He and his family were to live there from 1885.

Public life

In 1880 Agar-Robartes was returned to Parliament as one of two representatives for Cornwall East, a seat he held until 1882, when he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the

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. On 10 September 1899 he also succeeded his kinsman as sixth Viscount Clifden. In 1891, as chairman of the Agar-Robartes Bank he took over the ownership of

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in Cambridgeshire from

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in payment of debts. After a few years it was leased out. He later served as

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from 1906 to 1915.

Family

Lord Clifden married Mary Dickinson, daughter of Francis Henry Dickinson, of Kingweston House,

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, in 1878. They had ten children, of whom one died in infancy. Their eldest son the Honourable

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(had a twin sister) was also a Liberal politician, killed in

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. Lady Clifden died in January 1921. Lord Clifden survived her by nine years and died in July 1930, aged 86. He was buried at

. He was succeeded in his titles by his second but eldest surviving son

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