Sir William Agnew, 1st Baronet

Sir William Agnew, 1st Baronet (20 October 1825 – 31 October 1910) was an English politician and art dealer.

Career

Agnew was a Liberal Member of Parliament, first for South East Lancashire between 1880 and 1885 and later for Stretford from 1885 to 1886. He was created a Baronet, of Great Stanhope Street, London, in 1895.

He bought the Rougham estates in Suffolk, England, in 1904.

Family

He was the son of Thomas Agnew (1794-1871) and his wife Jane Garnet Lockett.

On 25 March 1851, he married Mary Kenworthy (born before 1836, died 2 September 1892), a daughter of George Pixton Kenworthy. Their children were:
*Mary Caroline Agnew, died 2 February 1888
*Florence Agnew, died 2 September 1890
*Sir George William Agnew, 2nd Baronet (born 19 January 1852, died 19 December 1941)
*Charles Morland Agnew (born 14 December 1855), died 23 May 1931)
*Walter Agnew (born 29 April 1861, died 17 April 1915)
*Philip Leslie Agnew (born 30 June 1863, died 5 March 1938)

Agnew's present-day descendants include Sir John Keith Agnew, 6th Baronet, of Rougham, and John Stuart Agnew, a parliamentary candidate of the UK Independence Party.

References

* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p12137.htm#i121362 Sir William Agnew, 1st Baronet, at ThePeerage.com]
*"Sir William Agnew, 1825-1910", in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew (1995)
*Charles Mosley, ed., "Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage", 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, pages 42-44