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  1. Sir Andrew Agnew, 7th Baronet. The grave of Sir Andrew Agnew, Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh. Sir Andrew Agnew, 7th Baronet (21 March 1793 – 28 April 1849) was a Scottish politician and a prominent promoter of Sunday Sabbatarianism, which brought him to the notice of Charles Dickens who criticised both his cause and his character. [1][2]

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  3. Feb 14, 2011 · Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, 7th Bt. was born posthumously on 21 March 1793 at Kinsale, Ireland G. 1, 2 He was the son of Andrew Agnew and Hon. Martha de Courcy. 1 He married Madeline Carnegie, daughter of Sir David Carnegie, 4th Bt. and Agnes Murray Elliot, on 11 June 1816 at Leswalt, Wigtownshire, Scotland G. 1, 3 He died on 28 April 1849 at ...

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    b. 21 Mar. 1793, posth. o.s. of Andrew Agnew (d. 1792) and Hon. Martha De Courcy, da. of John, 26th Bar. Kingsale [I]. educ. privately in Ireland; Edinburgh Univ. 1810-11; Oxf. Univ. (privately by Charles Henry Johnson of Brasenose) 1812-13. m. 11 June 1816, Madeline, da. of Sir David Carnegie†, 4th bt., of Kinnaird Castle, Southesk, Forfar, 8s. (1...

    The Agnews of Lochnaw, whose baronetcy dated from 1629, were hereditary sheriffs of Wigtownshire from 1451 until the jurisdiction was abolished in 1747, when Sir Andrew Agnew, 5th baronet (1687-1771) received £4,000 in compensation. His eldest surviving son and successor Sir Stair Agnew, who was born in 1734, was sometime a Virginia merchant. His s...

    See T. M’Crie, Mems. Sir Andrew Agnew(1850). 1. 1. Ibid. 16; Sir A. Agnew, Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway (1893), ii. 393-6; Gent. Mag. (1792), ii. 868. 2. 2.M’Crie, 17-50. 3. 3. Ibid. 51-99; B. Hilton, Age of Atonement, 208-10; J. Bridges, Mem. Sir Andrew Agnew(1849), 3-5. 4. 4.NLS Acc 6604/1, Agnew to Garlies, 7 Nov., reply, 29 Nov., Garlies to ...

  4. Sir Andrew Agnew possessed certain lands under grant from the Crown "with part and pertinent." He had exclusive possession of the foreshore ex adverso from time immemorial. The action of declarator was raised against the Lord Advocate on behalf of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests.

  5. Sketch of Sir Andrew Noel Agnew. Dundee Courier 29 June 1892. Sir Andrew Noel Agnew, 9th Baronet of Lochnaw (14 August 1850 – 14 July 1928) was a descendent of an old Scottish family whose main seat was Lochnaw Castle in Wigtownshire, Scotland. Educated at Harrow then Trinity College, Cambridge, he qualified as a barrister in 1874.

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  7. Crown—Property—Foreshore. IN 1870 Sir Andrew Agnew, Baronet, of Lochnaw, brought the present action against the Lord Advocate, on behalf of the Crown and of the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, and as representing the Board of Trade, to have it found and declared that the whole soil or ground of the sea-shore above low ...

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