James Agar (priest)

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James Agar was a 19th-century Anglican priest[1] in Ireland.[2]

The son of Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton, Archbishop of Dublin from 1801 until 1809,[3] he was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.[4] He was Archdeacon of Kilmore from 1810[5] to 1866[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Bengal Catholic Herald" Vol 6 p350: Calcutta, P.S. D'Rozario & Co ,1844
  2. ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 360–361 ISBN 0-521-56350-X
  3. ^ Malcolmson, A.P.W. (2002). Archbishop Charles Agar: Churchmanship and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 1760-1810. Dublin: Four Courts Press. ISBN 1-85182-694-7.
  4. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Agar, James (3)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  5. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p177: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  6. ^ 'DEATH OF THE HON. ARCHDEACON AGAR' The Morning Post (London, England), Saturday, September 22, 1866; pg. 5; Issue 28949