James Charles Herbert Welbore Ellis Agar, 3rd Earl of Normanton DL (17 September 1818 – 19 December 1896),[1] styled Viscount Somerton from birth until 1868, was a Conservative and later Peelite member of parliament in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before inheriting an Irish earldom and large estates in Ireland and Hampshire.
In 1873 he was created a baron in the peerage of the United Kingdom, giving him a seat in the House of Lords.
Born in 1818 at Ditchley House, Oxfordshire,[2] he was the eldest son of Welbore Ellis Agar, 2nd Earl of Normanton, and Lady Diana Herbert, a daughter of George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke.
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was president of the University Pitt Club.
However, in 1873 he was created Baron Somerton of Somerley, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, giving him a seat in the Lords which would be inherited by his successors.