[2] He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1870.In 1880 Agar-Robartes was returned to Parliament as one of two representatives for Cornwall East, a seat he held until 1882, when he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords.In 1891, as chairman of the Agar-Robartes Bank, he took over the ownership of Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire from Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke in payment of debts.Their eldest son the Honourable Thomas Agar-Robartes (had a twin sister[4]) was also a Liberal politician, killed in World War I.This article about a Liberal Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom representing an English constituency is a stub.