| 词条 | Thomas Agar-Robartes |
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Thomas Charles Reginald Agar-Robartes (known as Tommy) (22 May 1880 – 30 September 1915) was a British Liberal politician. Background and educationTommy Agar-Robartes was the eldest son and heir of Thomas Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden, and his wife Mary (née Dickenson) and was brought up at Lanhydrock House, Bodmin. He was the eldest of ten (including a twin sister).[1] Educated at Oxford and a keen horseman, he played in the Oxford University polo team that beat Cambridge in 1903.[2] Public lifeHe was elected a Member of Parliament for Bodmin in the 1906 general election, but lost his seat in June 1906 following a controversial election petition by the defeated candidate alleging illegal payments to potential voters. He was elected to the St Austell Division of Cornwall in a by-election in 1908 and held the seat until his death. Military careerHe was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal 1st Devon Imperial Yeomanry on 4 June 1902.[3] At the outbreak of World War I he joined the Royal Bucks Hussars as an officer. Tommy then joined the Coldstream Guards and was subsequently posted to France & Flanders. Captain The Honourable Thomas Charles Reginald Agar-Robartes, in command of No. 2 Coy, 1st Bn, the Coldstream Guards, was wounded in the Battle of Loos on 28 September and killed by a sniper on 30 September 1915 after rescuing a wounded comrade under heavy fire for which he was recommended for the Victoria Cross. Family lifeAgar-Robartes never married. MemorialsAgar-Robartes is buried in Lapugnoy Military Cemetery, near Béthune.[4] He is commemorated by a memorial in Truro Cathedral[5] and in stained glass at Selsey Abbey, Wimpole[6] and Church Norton.[7] Agar-Robartes is commemorated on Panel 8 of the Parliamentary War Memorial in Westminster Hall, one of 22 MPs who died during World War I to be named on that memorial.[8][9] Agar-Robartes is one of 19 MPs who fell in the war who are commemorated by heraldic shields in the Commons Chamber.[10] A further act of commemoration came with the unveiling in 1932 of a manuscript-style illuminated book of remembrance for the House of Commons, which included a short biographical account of the life and death of Agar-Robartes.[11][12] His younger brother Francis later succeeded their father in the viscountcy. {{clear}}List of memorials
Notes1. ^{{cite news|title=Births, Marriages, Deaths|work=The Cornishman|issue=99|date=3 June 1880|page=8}} 2. ^{{cite journal|title=The Polo Monthly|date=19 January 1911|page=334|url=http://www.hpamembers.co.uk/document_archive/yearbooks/1910%20Sep%20-%201911%20Feb.pdf|accessdate=16 October 2015}} 3. ^{{London Gazette |issue=27439 |date=3 June 1902|page=3611}} 4. ^{{CWGC|id=53707|name=Agar-Robartes, The Hon. Thomas Charles R.|access-date=30 August 2016}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://ww1cemeteries.com/british_cemeteries_memorials/agar_robartes_mem_truro.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-01-01 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013120104/http://ww1cemeteries.com/british_cemeteries_memorials/agar_robartes_mem_truro.htm |archivedate=13 October 2007 |df=dmy-all }} 6. ^Wimpole Parish Church at www.wimpole.info 7. ^West Sussex County Council: Heritage{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} at victorians.westsussex.gov.uk 8. ^{{cite web|title=Recording Angel memorial Panel 8|publisher=UK Parliament (www.parliament.uk)|website=Recording Angel memorial, Westminster Hall|url=http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/cultural-collections/memorials/in-the-collection/world-war-i/wwi-angel-memorial/recording-angel-panel8/|access-date=31 August 2016}} 9. ^{{cite web|title=List of names on the Recording Angel memorial, Westminster Hall|publisher=UK Parliament (www.parliament.uk)|website=Recording Angel memorial, Westminster Hall|url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/War-Memorial-Lists/War-Memorial-Westminster-Hall-WW1.pdf|format=pdf|access-date=31 August 2016}} 10. ^{{cite web|title=Agar-Robartes|publisher=UK Parliament (www.parliament.uk)|website=Heraldic shields to MPs, First World War|url=http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/cultural-collections/memorials/in-the-collection/world-war-i/wars-heraldic-shields/agar-robartes/|access-date=31 August 2016}} 11. ^{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=House of Commons War Memorial: Final Volumes Unveiled by The Speaker|day_of_week=Saturday |date=6 February 1932 |page_number=7|issue=46050}} 12. ^{{cite book|editor-last=Moss-Blundell|editor-first=Edward Whitaker|title=The House of Commons Book of Remembrance 1914–1918|publisher=E. Mathews & Marrot|year=1931}} 13. ^https://devoranwarmemorial.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/remembering-tommy-agar-robartes-30-september-1915/ 14. ^http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/52995 15. ^https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/97924/ 16. ^https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lanhydrock/features/st-hydrocs-church 17. ^http://www.wimpolepast.co.uk/memorial_robartes.asp 18. ^http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/58472 19. ^http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/cultural-collections/memorials/in-the-collection/world-war-i/wars-heraldic-shields/agar-robartes/ References
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| title = Member of Parliament for Bodmin | years = 1906–1906 | before = Sir Lewis Molesworth | after = Freeman Freeman-Thomas }}{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for St Austell | years = 1908–1915 | before = William Alexander McArthur | after = Sir Francis Layland-Barratt}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Agar-Robartes, Thomas}} 16 : 1880 births|1915 deaths|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Cornwall|UK MPs 1910–18|Coldstream Guards officers|British Army personnel of World War I|British military personnel killed in World War I|People who were rejected for the Victoria Cross|Politicians from Cornwall|People educated at Eton College|Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford|People from Lanhydrock|Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry officers|20th-century English politicians|Twin people from England |
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