James Agg-Gardner

[1] He was born in Cheltenham, where his father James Agg-Gardner, Senior (1804–58) had purchased the lordship of the manor in 1843.

After his father's death, James Junior was brought up as a ward of court, and educated at Harrow School and then privately.

He matriculated to Trinity College, Cambridge,[2] but instead of starting his studies he contested the 1868 general election in Cheltenham, but failed to win the seat.

[6] By the time of his death in 1928, aged 81, he was the oldest serving Member of Parliament, having sat with ten Prime Ministers from Disraeli to Baldwin.

for Cheltenham, and Chairman of the Kitchen Committee of the House of Commons; he was one of a few friends who lunched with me at my old Mark Lane headquarters, in 1918, to celebrate my return to civilian life.

We were on the eve of a General Election and we all drank good luck to Sir James in the wine of his own vintage.