Welbore Agar, 2nd Earl of Normanton

Welbore Ellis Agar, 2nd Earl of Normanton (12 November 1778 — 26 August 1868) was an Irish peer and landowner, of Anglo-Irish origins, who spent most of his life in England, where he acquired the Somerley estate in 1825.

His father was Charles Agar, Bishop of Cloyne, who was later created Earl of Normanton in the peerage of Ireland and ended his career as Archbishop of Dublin.

His father was the third son of Henry Agar of Gowran Castle, County Kilkenny and his wife Anne Ellis, a daughter of Welbore Ellis, Bishop of Meath.

[1] On 17 May 1816, Normanton married Lady Diana Herbert, a daughter of George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke, and Elizabeth Beauclerk, whose father was Topham Beauclerk, a grandson of Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, one of the illegitimate sons of King Charles II.

[3] After the death of William Young Ottley in 1836, Normanton bought The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine by Parmigianino.