Thursday 21 February 2013
61 Leopold Agar -Ellis
Constituency : County Kilkenny 1857-74
Leopold was the son of the Catholic peer Baron Dover. He was a Cambridge-educated barrister but became Aide-de-Camp to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland ( Lord Carlisle, his uncle ) in 1855. In 1857 he was elected for Kilkenny at the age of 28.
Leopold resumed the same office on Palmerson's return to power serving until 1864. He held no office in Gladstone's first administration.
He left Parliament in 1874 but returned as Baron Dover in 1895 after his nephew died childless. He himself died without issue four years later at the age of 70.
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