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Agar, Welbore Ellis, d. 1805

  • GB-2014-WSA-01981
  • Person
  • d. 1805

AGAR, WELBORE ELLIS, brother of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (qv); b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1747 (Grant's); in school list 1754; Deputy Commissary-Gen. of Musters, England, from Nov 1763; a Commissioner of Customs from 31 Oct 1776; a well-known picture collector; FRS 22 Mar 1781; m. 21 Oct 1769 Gertrude, sister of Sir Charles Hotham (adm. 1745, qv); d. 30 Oct 1805.

Agar, Welbore Ellis, d. 1868

  • GB-2014-WSA-01982
  • Person
  • d. 1868

AGAR, WELBORE ELLIS, 2ND EARL OF NORMANTON (I), eldest son of Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton (qv); adm.; KS 1794; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1798, matr. 6 Jun 1798, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1798 - res 20 Nov 1803; BA 1802; succ. as 2nd Earl of Normanton (I) 14 Jul 1809; m. 17 May 1816 Lady Diana Herbert, dau. of George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke KG, Gen. in the Army; d. 26 Aug 1868.

Agar-Ellis, George James Welbore, 1797-1833

  • GB-2014-WSA-01983
  • Person
  • 1797-1833

AGAR-ELLIS, GEORGE JAMES WELBORE, 1ST BARON DOVER, only son of Henry Welbore Agar-Ellis, 2nd Viscount Clifden (qv); b. 14 Jan 1797; adm. Lady Day 1811; left 1811; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Jan 1814; BA 1816; MA 1819; MP Heytesbury 1818-20, Seaford 1820-6, Ludgershall 1826-30, Okehampton 1830-1; Privy Councillor 22 Nov 1830; Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests Dec 1830 - Feb 1831; created Baron Dover 20 Jun 1831; a Whig politician, and a connoisseur of pictures who suggested the purchase of the Angerstein collection and the formation of a National Gallery in 1823; member, Society of Dilettanti 1821; FSA (by 1831); Trustee, British Museum and National Gallery; edited The Ellis Correspondence, 1829; author, The true history of the state prisoner commonly called the Iron Mask, 1826, and other works; m. 7 Mar 1822 Lady Georgiana Howard, dau. of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle KG PC, Lord Privy Seal; d. 10 Jul 1833. DNB.

Agar-Ellis, Henry Welbore, 1761-1836

  • GB-2014-WSA-01984
  • Person
  • 1761-1836

AGAR-ELLIS, HENRY WELBORE, 2ND VISCOUNT CLIFDEN (I), eldest son of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (qv); b. 22 Jan 1761; adm. 12 Jun 1770; KS (Capt. ) 1774; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1778, matr. 19 Jun 1778; BA 1782; Grand Tour (Italy) 1783; MP (I) Co. Kilkenny 1783-9; Recorder of Gowran 1783; Clerk of the Privy Council, Ireland 1785-1817; succ. as 2nd Viscount Clifden (I) 1 Jan 1789; MP Heytesbury 28 May 1793 - 2 Feb 1802, when he succeeded his great-uncle Welbore Ellis (qv) as 2nd Baron Mendip (GB); assumed additional surname of Ellis 4 Feb 1804; supported Whig party in House of Lords; FSA (by 1831); m. 10 Mar 1792 Lady Caroline Spencer Churchill, eldest dau. of George Spencer Churchill, 4th Duke of Marlborough KG PC, Lord President of the Council; d. 13 Jul 1836.

Aggs, Chris

  • GB-2014-WSA-00030
  • Person

Aggs, Daniel, 1917-2010

  • GB-2014-WSA-01985
  • Person
  • 1917-2010

Aggs, Daniel, son of William Hanbury Aggs, barrister-at-law, and Sylvia Marie, d. of Silvanus Phillips Thompson, DSc FRS, Prof. of Applied Physics, Univ. of Lond.; b. 21 June 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (G); left July 1935; Univ. Coll. Lond. 1935-6; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1936, BA 1939, MA 1943; a farmer in Sussex; m. 18 Sept. 1948 Jessica Alison, d. of Louis Alexander Wright, retd tea planter, of Storrington, Sussex; d. 31 Oct. 2010.

Aglionby, ---, fl. 1715

  • GB-2014-WSA-01986
  • Person
  • fl. 1715

AGLIONBY, ; b.; in under school lists 1715, 1716.

Aglionby, Arthur Hugh, 1885-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-01987
  • Person
  • 1885-1918

Aglionby, Arthur Hugh, brother of John Orfeur Aglionby (q.v.); b. Nov. 4, 1885; adm. Sept. 28, 1899 (A); left July 1905; Corpus Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1905; 1st Cl. Lit. Hum. 1908; B.A. 1908; M.A. 1912; an assistant master at preparatory schools at St. Andrews and at Bournemouth, and subsequently at Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada; 2nd Lieut. Dorsetshire R.G.A., No. 1 Co., April 4, 1912; returned home from Canada in July 1914; Lieut. R.G.A. Dec. 1, 1914, Capt. (acting) Aug. 26, 1917; Major (acting) May 29, 1918; went out to the western front in Sept. 1916 and served with the 174th, 244th, and 219th Siege Batteries, being in command of the last at the time of his death; M.C. Jan. 1, 1919; d. at the second Canadian C. C. S. at Roubaix Nov. 7, 1918, of wounds received in action at Moen, near the Scheidt, on the same day; unm.

Aglionby, George, 1603-1643

  • GB-2014-WSA-01988
  • Person
  • 1603-1643

AGLIONBY, GEORGE, son of Rev. John Aglionby DD, Principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and Rector of Islip, Oxfordshire; bapt. 1 May 1603; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1619, matr. 9 Dec 1619, aged 16, Westminster Student to (?) 1636; BA 1623 (incorp. at Cambridge 1624); MA 1626; BD 1633 : DD 1635 (incorp. at Cambridge 1641/2); an Usher at the School; tutor to George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham; ordained; Vicar of Cassington, Oxfordshire 1632-8; Prebendary of Westminster from 28 Sep 1638, and of Chichester from 1 Apr 1639; Dean of Chichester from c. Jun 1642; Dean of Canterbury 6 May 1643, but never installed; lic. to m. 3 Jul 1635 Sibella Smith, St. Martin in the Fields, London; buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford 11 Nov 1643.

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