Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton
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The Most Reverend The Earl of Normanton | |
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Archbishop of Dublin Bishop of Glendalough Primate of Ireland | |
Church | Church of Ireland |
Diocese | Dublin and Glendalough |
Appointed | 7 December 1801 |
In office | 1801-1809 |
Predecessor | Robert Fowler |
Successor | Euseby Cleaver |
Orders | |
Consecration | 20 March 1768 by Arthur Smyth |
Personal details | |
Born | Gowran Castle, County Kilkenny, Kingdom of Ireland | 22 December 1736
Died | 14 July 1809 London, England | (aged 72)
Buried | Westminster Abbey |
Nationality | Irish |
Denomination | Anglican |
Parents | Henry Agar and Anne Ellis |
Spouse | Jane Benson |
Children | 4 |
Previous post(s) | Bishop of Cloyne (1768-1779) Archbishop of Cashel (1779-1801) |
Education | Westminster School |
Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton (22 December 1736 – 14 July 1809), was an Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman. He served as Archbishop of Dublin from 1801 to 1809.[1]
Agar was the third son of Henry Agar of Gowran in County Kilkenny and his wife Anne Ellis, daughter of the Most Reverend Welbore Ellis, Bishop of Meath. James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden was his elder brother and Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip his maternal uncle.
He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.[2]
Agar served as Dean of Kilmore (1765–1768)[3] and Bishop of Cloyne (1768–1779).[4][5] In 1779 he was admitted to the Irish Privy Council and appointed Archbishop of Cashel,[6][7] which was an archbishopric until 1838, an office he held until 1801, and was then Archbishop of Dublin from 1801 to 1809.[8][9] Agar is known to have held particularly marked Calvinistic positions.
In 1794 Agar was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Somerton.[10] In 1801 he was created Viscount Somerton[10] and in 1806 he was even further honoured when he was made Earl of Normanton.[11] These titles were also in the Peerage of Ireland. From 1800 to 1809 he sat in the House of Lords as one of the 28 original Irish Representative Peers.[12]
Lord Normanton died in July 1809, aged 72, and was succeeded in his secular titles by his son Welbore Ellis Agar. He is buried in the north transept of Westminster Abbey; his widow Jane, Countess of Normanton was buried alongside him following her death in 1826.[2] His tomb dates from 1815 and was created by John Bacon.[13]
References[]
Citations[]
- ^ Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton. thePeerage.com. Retrieved on 26 August 2009.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "CHARLES AGAR, EARL OF NORMANTON". Westminster Abbey.
- ^ Cotton 1849, p. 174.
- ^ Cotton 1851, p. 302.
- ^ Fryde et al. 1986, p. 385.
- ^ Cotton 1851, p. 22.
- ^ Fryde et al. 1986, p. 381.
- ^ Cotton 1848, p. 27.
- ^ Fryde et al. 1986, p. 391.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Somerton. Leigh Rayment. Retrieved on 26 August 2009.
- ^ Normanton. Leigh Rayment. Retrieved on 26 August 2009.
- ^ Representative Peers - Ireland. Leigh Rayment. Retrieved on 26 August 2009.
- ^ Gunnis 1968.
Sources[]
- Cotton, Henry (1848). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 2, The Province of Leinster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith.
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has extra text (help) - Cotton, Henry (1849). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 3, The Province of Ulster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith.
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has extra text (help) - Cotton, Henry (1851). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 1, The Province of Munster (2nd Edition, corrected and enlarged ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith.
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has extra text (help) - Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 385. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- Gunnis, Rupert (1968). Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1660-1851. Murrays.
- Malcolmson, A.P.W. (2002). Archbishop Charles Agar: Churchmanship and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 1760-1810. Dublin: Four Courts Press. ISBN 1-85182-694-7.
- 1736 births
- 1809 deaths
- Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
- Anglican archbishops of Cashel
- Anglican archbishops of Dublin
- Anglican bishops of Cloyne
- Deans of Kilmore
- Earls in the Peerage of Ireland
- Irish representative peers
- Members of the Irish House of Lords
- Members of the Privy Council of Ireland
- Ordained peers
- Peers of Ireland created by George III
- People educated at Westminster School, London
- People from County Kilkenny
- Irish Anglican archbishops