 From 1800 to 1809 he sat in the House of Lords as one of the 28 original Irish Representative Peers.Lord Normanton died in July 1809, aged 72, and was succeeded in his secular titles by his son Welbore Ellis Agar.He is buried in the north transept of Westminster Abbey; his widow Jane, Countess of Normanton was buried alongside him following her death in 1826.