Francis Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden

Who was Francis Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden?

Francis Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, was a British Liberal politician.

Clifden was the second but eldest surviving son of Thomas Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden, and his wife Mary, and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1930 and took his seat on the Liberal benches in the House of Lords. From 1940 to 1945 he served as a Lord-in-Waiting in Winston Churchill's coalition government.

Lord Clifden died in July 1966, aged 83. He never married and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his younger brother Arthur.