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Up for sale "7th Baronet" Sir Andrew Agnew Signed Free Frank Dated 1837.

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. ndrew Agnew was the son of Andrew Agnew and Martha,

daughter of John de Courcy, 19th Lord Kingsale. He attended the University of Edinburgh and

the University of Oxford.[1] He succeeded his grandfather as 7th Baronet

Agnew, of Lochnaw on the latter's death on 28 June 1809. The family lived

at Lochnaw Castle in the parish of Leswalt. Agnew was Member of

Parliament for Wigtownshire, 1830–1837. He stood as a moderate

reformer, but soon became deeply attached to the cause of Sabbatarianism, and

pressed for the banning of all secular labour on Sunday. For this purpose he

introduced no less than four Sabbath Observance Bills in the Commons, none of

which passed. It was the third attempt which drew on him the

wrath of Charles Dickens, whose

essay Sunday Under Three Heads (1836) is very largely a

personal attack on Agnew, whom he described as a fanatic, motivated by

resentment of the idea that those poorer than himself might have any pleasure

in life. While Dickens made many cogent arguments against the Bill, the

strongest perhaps being that people cannot be forced to go to

Church on Sunday, his personal attack is probably unjust: the Dictionary of

National Biography speaks of Agnew's "genial and kindly nature".He

left Parliament in 1837, and no further effort to proceed with a Sabbath

Observance Bill was made.He died from scarlet fever in 1849 and he was

succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son. He is buried in Grange Cemetery in Edinburgh against the north wall.

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