Agar Wynne ²

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Wynne, Agar (1850-1934)

by Darryl Bennet

Agar Wynne (1850-1934), politician, was born on 15 July 1850 in London, son of Edward Agar Wynne, builder, and his wife Sarah Maria, née Palmer. The family migrated to Victoria in his boyhood. Educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, Agar represented the school in football and matriculated in 1868. Having completed the articled clerk's course at the University of Melbourne, he was admitted as an attorney on 7 July 1874 and entered a succession of legal partnerships, initially with (Sir) Henry Cuthbert. In Melbourne on 10 November 1886 he married with Australian Church forms a widow with two children, Mary Jane Robertson, née Smith (d.1889).

On 21 February 1896 at the Collins Street Independent Church he married a widow with three children, Annie Dudgeon, née Samuel.

Agar married Annie Samuel, daughter of Samuel Israel Samuel and Elizabeth Williams, on 21 Feb 1896 in Independent Church, Collins St, Melbourne.¹ (Annie Samuel was born in 1855 in Sandridge, Melbourne ^{3 4} and died in 1926 in St Kilda, Melbourne ⁵.)