James Agar, 3rd Earl of Normanton
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James Charles Herbert Welbore Ellis Agar, 3rd Earl of Normanton DL (17 September 1818 – 19 December 1896),[1] styled Viscount Somerton until 1868, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He was the eldest son of Welbore Agar, 2nd Earl of Normanton and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was president of the University Pitt Club.[2]
He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wilton at an unopposed by-election in 1841, and was re-elected unopposed in 1847. He stood down from the House of Commons at the 1852 general election.[3]
Family
He married Caroline Susan Augusta Barrington in 1856 and had a large family, including:[4]
- Caroline Elizabeth Villiers, Countess of Clarendon (b. 1857)
- Charles George Welbore Ellis Agar, Viscount Somerton (b. 1858)
- Sidney James Agar, 4th Earl of Normanton (b. 1865)
References
- ^ "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
- ^ Fletcher, Walter Morley (2011) [1935]. The University Pitt Club: 1835-1935 (First Paperback ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-1-107-60006-5.
- ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 333. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ^ "Normanton, Earl of (I, 1806)". Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Normanton
- James Charles Herbert Welbore Ellis Agar, 3rd Earl of Normanton at ThePeerage.com
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- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Earls in the Peerage of Ireland
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- UK MPs 1841–1847
- UK MPs 1847–1852
- UK MPs who inherited peerages
- UK MPs who were granted peerages
- 1818 births
- 1896 deaths
- Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers
- Deputy Lieutenants of Hampshire
- Deputy Lieutenants of Wiltshire