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Charles Agar (28 May 1755 – 5 May 1789) was an Irish Anglican priest.

The second son of James Agar MP of Ringwood, County Kilkenny, and the Hon. Rebecca Flower, daughter of William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow, 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 from 1788 until 1788. He died unmarried at the age of 34.

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1. Cracrofts
2. JSTOR
3. Dictionary of Irish Biography
4. Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Agar, Charles (2)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
5. Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons. Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.
6. "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
7. "Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Cotton, H Vol I p103 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860

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