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AGAR, HON. JAMES, third son of Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton (qv); b. 10 Jul 1782 [or 1781 ?]; adm.; KS 1797; played cricket against Eton 8 Aug 1799, 31 Jul 1800; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1801, matr. 15 May 1801, Westminster Student; BA 1805; MA 1808; ordained priest (York) 3 Oct 1805; Prebendary of St. Patrick’s, Dublin 16 Nov 1805-9; Rector of St. Nicholas Without, Dublin, 1806, and of Carrig Allen, co. Leitrim 1809; Rector of Hollywood, co. Down, from 1806 [check]; Archdeacon of Kilmore from 1810; m. 7 Jul 1829 Louisa, youngest dau. of Samuel Thompson, Greenmount, co. Antrim; d. 6 Sep 1866.

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, HON. JOHN ELLIS, second son of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (qv); b. 31 Dec 1764; adm. 14 Sep 1773; KS 1780; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1784, matr. 9 Jun 1784, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1784 – void 5 Jul 1790 (expiry year of grace as R. Duntrileague from 20 Jul 1789); BA 1788; MA 1791; ordained; Rector of Duntrileague, co. Limerick 1789; Prebendary of Emly from 4 Jul 1789; Rector of St. George’s, Dublin; Precentor of Christ Church, Dublin from 27 Feb 1796; m. 11 Mar 1792 Hon. Harriet Flower, dau. of William Flower, 2nd Viscount Ashbrook (I); d. 3 Jan 1797.

AGAR, JAMES, 1ST VISCOUNT CLIFDEN (I), eldest son of Henry Agar MP (I), Gowran Castle, co. Kilkenny, by Anne, only surviving dau. of Welbore Ellis (KS 1676, qv); b. 25 Mar 1734; adm. Nov. 1746 (Grant's); left 1752; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Apr 1752; MP (I) Gowran 1753-60, Co. Kilkenny 1761-76, Gowran 1776; a Commissioner of the Irish Revenue 3 Feb 1772-85, and of the Irish Excise 13 Jul 1776-85; created Baron Clifden (I) 27 Jan 1776; Viscount Clifden (I) 12 Jan 1781; joint Postmaster-General, Ireland 16 Jul 1784-9; Privy Councillor (I) 16 Oct 1784; m. 20 Mar 1760 Lucy, widow of Hon. Henry Boyle Walsingham MP (I), and eldest dau. of Col. John Martin, Dublin; d. 1 Jan 1789.

Agar, Harold Evelyn Talbot, brother of Charles Talbot Agar (q.v.); b. Aug. 14, 1876; adm. Sept. 25, 1888 (G); Exhibitioner 1890; left July 1892; Trin. Coll. Camb. ladm. pensr. June 25, 1894), matric. Michaelmas 1894; a member of the London Stock Exchange from 1911; Major 3rd London Field Co. Divisional Engineers R.E. June 1, 1916; m. June 22, 1904 Beatrice Frances Jervis, only daughter of C. W. Jervis-Smith, of Doveridge, Derbyshire; d. at Vence, France, June 18, 1962.

AGAR, HON. CHARLES BAGENAL, third son of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (qv); b. 13 Aug 1769; adm. 18 May 1778; KS 1784; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1788, matr. 22 May 1788, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1788 – void 25 Jun 1800; BA 1792; MA 1795; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 14 Jul 1788, called to bar 9 Jun 1796; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 1799 (occurs in annual lists 1801-4); Commissioner of Appeals of Excise 10 Mar 1800 – 7 Jul 1806; Deputy Recorder of Oxford 1801; High Sheriff of Cornwall 1809; m. 2 Nov 1804 Anna Maria, only dau. of Thomas Hunt MP, Mollington, Cheshire, and Lanhydrock, Cornwall, and sole heiress of her great-uncle Henry, 3rd Earl of Radnor; d. 16 Jun 1811.

WATSON, LEWIS, 1ST BARON SONDES, brother of John Monson, 2nd Baron Monson (qv); b. 28 Nov 1728; adm. Apr 1737 (as Lewis Monson); (Taylor's); left 1745; assumed surname of Watson in lieu of Monson on inheriting estates in Northamptonshire and Kent of his cousin Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham 26 Feb 1745/6; Grand Tour (Italy, Germany) 1749-50; MP Boroughbridge 23 Apr 1750-4, Kent 1754 – 20 May 1760; Joint Auditor of the Imprest Feb 1754 – Jul 1785, when post abolished; created Baron Sondes 20 May 1760; DL Kent 1746, Northamptonshire 1756 and 1792; member, Society of Dilettanti 1751; m. 12 Oct 1752 Frances, second dau. of Hon. Henry Pelham (b. 1696, qv); d. 30 Mar 1795.

BERTIE, WILLOUGHBY, 4TH EARL OF ABINGDON, second son of Willoughby Bertie, 3rd Earl of Abingdon, and Anna Maria, dau. of Sir John Collins, Kt.; nephew of William Bertie (qv); b. 16 Jan 1740; adm. Jun 1750; (Porten's, Jones); in school list 1754; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 29 Jan 1759; MA 20 Jan 1761; succ. his father as 4th Earl of Abingdon 10 Jan 1760; in Italy and Switzerland 1763-5 and again 1770; a friend and supporter of John Wilkes MP; spoke frequently in House of Lords in defence of popular rights, and opposed Government policy on America; sympathised with the French Revolution; sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and a fine of £100 for libelling an attorney whom he had once employed, 12 Jan 1795; a curious satire on the Earl’s career, entitled An Adieu to the Turf, was published anonymously in 1778 (see Notes and Queries, 12th ser., iv, 16, 55); author of Thoughts on Mr Burke’s Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the Affairs in America, 1777, and other pamphlets; m. 7 Jul 1768 Charlotte, dau. of Vice Adm. Sir Peter Warren KB MP; d. 26 Sep 1799. DNB.

St. John, Hon. Ambrose, younger brother of Hon. Henry St. John (qv); b. 17 Oct 1743; at school in 1757 (Porten's); Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Oct 1762; ordained deacon 11 Aug 1771, priest 22 Sep 1771 (both Lincoln); Rector of Bledsoe, Bedfordshire, from 23 Sep 1771 ; d. unm. 18 Jul 1775.

BENTHAM, JEREMY, son of Jeremiah Bentham, attorney-at-law, Red Lion Street, Houndsditch, London, and his first wife Alicia, widow of --- Whitehorne, and sister of George Woodward Grove (qv); b. 15 Feb 1747/8; adm. 1755; (Morel's according Bentham's memoir); elected KS 1759, but remained a Town Boy; left Aug 1760; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Jun 1760; BA 1764; MA 1767; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 26 Jan 1763, called to bar 6 Nov 1769; did not practise his profession, but resident in chambers in Middle Temple 1766-9, Lincoln’s Inn from 1769; turned his mind to science and to speculations on politics and jurisprudence; his Fragment on Government, a masterly criticism of Blackstone’s Commentaries, appeared anonymously in 1776; friend and protege of Earl of Shelburne (later 1st Marquis of Lansdowne); a successful promoter of law reform and one of the ablest propagandists of the doctrine of utilitarianism; exercised great influence in the fields of ethics and jurisprudence; his published works were collected and edited by Sir John Bowring and John Hill Burton, in an eleven-volume edition published in 1843; his reminiscences of his school-days at Westminster appear in vol. x, 26-35, where it will be seen that his opinion of the instruction, discipline and usages of the School in his day was by no means flattering; two small MS volumes containing school and college exercises by him are preserved in the School Library; d. unm. 6 Jun 1832; his skeleton is preserved at University Coll., London. DNB.