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 | | He was created Baron Somerton in 1795, Viscount Somerton in 1800, and Earl of Normanton in 1806, and died possessed of an estate which his wife reckoned was worth £10,000 a year (a considerable underestimate, because in addition to landed property of nearly that annual value, it comprised something like £350,000 in investments). |
| | 'Family' correspondents, apart from Welbore Ellis, include the 1st Viscount Clifden and his eldest son and heir, Henry Welbore Agar, later 2nd Viscount; their letters are a mixture of politics, patronage, money and genuinely family matters. |
| | The other principal correspondents are mainly members of Agar's personal and political circle in Ireland, notably John Scott, later 1st Earl of Clonmell; their correspondence with him, while it is characterised by a slightly risqué sense of humour granted that the recipient was a churchman, also shows a genuine sense of culture and good taste. |
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