Jump to content
Main menu
Navigation
●Main page
●Contents
●Current events
●Random article
●About Wikipedia
●Contact us
●Donate
Contribute
●Help
●Learn to edit
●Community portal
●Recent changes
●Upload file
Search
●Create account
●Log in
●Create account
● Log in
Pages for logged out editors learn more
●Contributions
●Talk
(Top)
1
References
George Agar, 1st Baron Callan
●日本語
Edit links
●Article
●Talk
●Read
●Edit
●View history
Tools
Actions
●Read
●Edit
●View history
General
●What links here
●Related changes
●Upload file
●Special pages
●Permanent link
●Page information
●Cite this page
●Get shortened URL
●Download QR code
●Wikidata item
Print/export
●Download as PDF
●Printable version
Appearance
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Agar, 1st Baron Callan PC (4 December 1751 – 29 October 1815) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.
Agar was the third son of James Agar, of Ringwood, County Kilkenny, by the Honourable Rebecca Flower, daughter of William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow and Edith Caulfeild. Ellis Bermingham, Countess of Brandon, was his aunt. His father was killed in a duel with Henry Flood in 1769, the culmination of a long and bitter political feud. He was educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[1]
Lord Callan's aunt, Elizabeth (Ellis), Countess of Brandon
Agar was returned to the Irish House of Commons for Callan in 1776, a seat he held until 1790, and was admitted to the Irish Privy Council in 1789.[2][1][3] In 1790 he was elevated to the Peerage of IrelandasBaron Callan, of Callan in the County of Kilkenny.[1] In 1801 he was elected as one of the original 28 Irish representative peer to sit in the House of Lords.[1][4]
Lord Callan never married and the title became extinct on his death in October 1815, aged 63.[1]
References[edit]
^ leighrayment.com Privy Counsellors – Ireland[usurped]
^ leighrayment.com Representative peers – Ireland[usurped]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Agar,_1st_Baron_Callan&oldid=1214033503"
Categories:
●1751 births
●1815 deaths
●18th-century Anglo-Irish people
●19th-century Anglo-Irish people
●People educated at Eton College
●Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
●Barons in the Peerage of Ireland
●Members of the Privy Council of Ireland
●Irish representative peers
●Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kilkenny constituencies
●Irish MPs 1776–1783
●Irish MPs 1783–1790
●Members of the Irish House of Lords
●Peers of Ireland created by George III
Hidden categories:
●CS1 maint: unfit URL
●Articles with short description
●Short description matches Wikidata
●Use dmy dates from October 2020
●EngvarB from October 2020
●This page was last edited on 16 March 2024, at 15:49 (UTC).
●Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0;
additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
●Privacy policy
●About Wikipedia
●Disclaimers
●Contact Wikipedia
●Code of Conduct
●Developers
●Statistics
●Cookie statement
●Mobile view
