398 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. ROBARTES, BARON. (AGAR-ROBARTES.) THOMAS JAMES AGAR-ROBARTES, 1st Baron, son of the Right Hon. Charles Bagenal Agar, 3rd son of the 1st Viscount Clifden and of Anna Maria, daughter of Thomas Hunt, Esq. of Mollington-hall, Cheshire, heiress of her great-uncle, Henry Robartes, 3rd Earl of Radnor.* Born'March 18th, 1808; was educated at Harrow, and at Christ Church, Oxford, (B.A. 1830) ; is a Magistrate for Corn- wall, and a Special Deputy Warden of the Stannaries ; was M.P. for East Corn- wall, (L.), 184768; assumed, in 1822, the surname and arms of Robartes, as representative of the ancient family of Robartes, Earls of Radnor: married (1839) Juliana, daughter of the late Right Hon. Reginald Pole Carew, P.C. of Antony, Cornwall, and has issue, living, Son, Thomas Charles, b. 1844 ; was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, (M.A. 1869) ; is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for Cornwall ; called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, 18/0. R evidence, same as Baron Robartes. Gluts, Brooks's, New University, "VVindham. Creation, Baron Robartes of Lanhydrock and Truro, Cornwall, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1869. Who is above. Azure : three estoiles, and a chief wavy, or. Crest, A lion rampant, or, holding a flaming sword erect, proper, pomel and hilt, gold. Supporters, On either side a goat, argent, gorged with a ducal crown, and charged on the breast with an estoile, azure, Seat, Lanhydroch, Bodmin, Cornwall. Residence, -1, Dean-street, Park-lane, W. Clubs, Athenaeum, Brooks's. Eobertson, surname of Baroness Marjoribanks. Robinson, family name of the Earl De Grey and Ripon. Robinson-Montagu, family name of Baron Rokeby. Roche, family name of Baron Fermoy.
- This family dates from the time of Henry VIIT., when Richard Robartes, of Truro,
was a man of some consideration. His grandson, who served the office of Sheriff of Corn- wall, was knighted by James I. in 1616, and created a baronet in 1621, and in 1625 was created Baron Robartes of Truro. His son, the second Baron Robartes, originally a sup- porter of Parliament, aided Monk to procure the Restoration, and was created Viscount Bodmin and Earl of Radnor by Charles II. The title became extinct with the fourth earl, but the family continued in the female line, the present Baron Robartes being a descendant from the third Earl's sister.
