Arthur Kirwan Agar
Sir Arthur Kirwan Agar (31 August 1877 – July 1942) was a British lawyer and colonial judge who served as Chief Justice of British Honduras from 1936 to 1940. He was knighted in 1939.
He was born on 31 August 1877, the son of solicitor Edward Larpent Agar of Milford House, Milford-on-Sea, and the grandson of William Agar. His siblings included Madeline Agar, a landscape designer, and Wilfred Eade Agar, an Anglo-Australian zoologist. Agar attended Brighton College and served in the Royal Army Service Corps during World War I, reaching the rank of captain. After being called to the English Bar by Gray's Inn, he joined the Colonial Legal Service in 1920.
Agar married twice. In 1905 he wed Winifred Milbourne Raynes, with whom he had two daughters. He married Josephine Hutchings in 1930. He died in July 1942 in Springfield, Dominica, at the age of 64.
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