| AdminHistory | Dr Samuel Hollingsworth Agar was born on 22 July 1857, at Tudor House, Henley-in-Arden. He was educated at Caius College, Cambridge, and followed in his father's footsteps taking up a profession in medicine, having trained at St Thomas's Hospital. His father, also Dr Samuel Hollingsworth Agar, had been born in Ireland, but established himself in Henley-in-Arden in 1853, becoming proprietor of Burman House, a small private asylum in Henley. Dr Samuel Hollingsworth Agar Snr was responsible for the building of Glendossil, another private establishment in Henley, which Agar Jnr would go on to run following his father's death in 1905. At some point in his career Dr Agar junr became a Justice of the Peace. He died aged 84, 5 March 1941 at his home, Hurst House, Henley.
NB. The above information was taken from Dr Agar's obitutary in the Stratford-upon-Avon Advertiser, Friday 7 March 1941, and the obituary of his father in The British Medical Journal, 25 Feb 1905, copies of which are to be found with WCRO's deposit paperwork. |