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Charles Agar (Archdeacon of Emly)

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Charles Agar (28 May 1755 – 5 May 1789)[1] was an Irish Anglican priest.[2]

The son of James Agar of Kilkenny,[3] he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church Oxford.[4] He was M.P. for Kilkenny City from May to July 1778;[5] and Archdeacon of Emly[6] from 1782 until 1788.[7]

References

  1. ^ Cracrofts
  2. ^ JSTOR
  3. ^ Dictionary of Irish Biography
  4. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Agar, Charles (2)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  5. ^ Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons. Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.
  6. ^ "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860" George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p4: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  7. ^ "Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Cotton,H Vol I p103 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860