Gowran Castle Holdenby House Dover House Lanhydrock House
Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip
Viscount Clifden, of Gowran in the County of Kilkenny, Ireland, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 12 January 1781 for James Agar, 1st Baron Clifden. He had already been created Baron Clifden, of Gowran in the County of Kilkenny, in 1776, also in the Peerage of Ireland. The Viscounts also held the titles of Baron Mendip in the Peerage of Great Britain from 1802 to 1974 (a title which is still extant and now held by the Earl of Normanton) and Baron Dover from 1836 to 1899, when this title became extinct, and Baron Robartes from 1899 to 1974, when this title became extinct, the two latter titles which were in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The interrelated histories of the peerages follow below.
ViscountClifden, of Gowran in the County of Kilkenny, Ireland, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 12 January 1781 for James Agar...
recognised as Viscounts: Viscount of Audenaerde Viscount of Hombeke Viscount de Spoelberch Viscount Eyskens Viscount Savoir Viscount Poullet Viscount Frimout...
first Earl of Normanton was the younger brother of James Agar, 1st ViscountClifden and the nephew of the politician Welbore Ellis. The latter was in 1794...
Charles Bagenal Agar, the youngest son of Irish peer James Agar, 1st ViscountClifden. The couple had three children, but by 1818 not only had her husband...
was the only son of Henry Ellis, 2nd ViscountClifden. For more information on this creation, see ViscountClifden. see Baron Jermyn Joseph Yorke, 1st...
hands of Thomas Agar-Robartes, 6th ViscountClifden, and then his son, Francis Agar-Robartes, 7th ViscountClifden who, in 1930, departed to Lanhydrock...
her death in 1872. Later residents include Thomas Agar-Robartes, 6th ViscountClifden from 1889 to 1896, and Arthur Hornby Lewis, iron-master, from 1900...
was son of Henry Agar-Ellis, 3rd ViscountClifden and great-grandson of Henry Wellbore Agar - Ellis 2nd ViscountClifden) Gowran Castle, is listed in Griffiths...
Agar (1707–1746) was an Irish politician, and the father of the 1st ViscountClifden and the 1st Earl of Normanton. Agar was the eldest son of James Agar...
Pedley 01 1 172 2:52 1848 Surplice Sim Templeman John Kent, Jr. 3rd ViscountClifden 00.25 nk 168 2:48 1849 The Flying Dutchman Charles Marlow John Fobert...
family held the title of ViscountClifden over several generations. The Agars were often referred to as Lords Clifden or Clifdens of Gowran. Gowran is known...
London Cornish Association, Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, ViscountClifden, the Western Morning News and the Duke of Cornwall, and the belts and...
of the United Kingdom was extinct on 1 January 1971 The Viscountcy of Clifden in the Peerage of Ireland and the Barony of Robartes in the Peerage of...
Clement Attlee as Lord Privy Seal and later as Deputy Prime Minister, Viscount Halifax as Foreign Secretary, and Arthur Greenwood as a minister without...
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