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 Ireland as Baron Callan, of Callan in the County of Kilkenny.[1] In 1801 he was elected as one of the original 28 Irish Representative peers to sit in the British House of Lords.[1][4]

Lord Callan never married and the title became extinct on his death in October 1815, aged 63.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 thepeerage.com George Agar, 1st and last Baron Callan
  2. ↑ "leighrayment.com Irish House of Commons 1692–1800". Archived from the original on 1 June 2009. Retrieved 19 January 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ↑ leighrayment.com Privy Counsellors – Ireland[usurped]
  4. ↑ leighrayment.com Representative peers – Ireland[usurped]
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