Charles Agar (Archdeacon of Emly) explained

Charles Agar (28 May 1755 – 5 May 1789)^[1] was an Irish Anglican priest.^[2]

The second son of James Agar MP of Ringwood, County Kilkenny, and the Hon. Rebecca Flower, daughter of William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow, ^[3] he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. His father was killed in a duel with Henry Flood in 1769. He was M.P. for Kilkenny City from May to July 1778; and Archdeacon of Emly^[4] from 1788 until 1788. He died unmarried at the age of 34.^[5]

Notes and References

1. http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/callan1790.htm Cracrofts
2. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25513414?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents JSTOR
3. http://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a0055 Dictionary of Irish Biography
4. "Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860" George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p4: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
5. "Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Cotton, H Vol I p103 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860