David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ This Major Edward Thomson, who was quartered in Ireland, wrote to his sister on 29th March 1721, “I had a letter from my best nephew Anthony very lately; he has made a good use of his time, and writes an incomparable good hand, fitt for the business he is put to.” Anthony Lefroy went out to Leghorn in the end of 1728; it is said that he had obtained a share in the house of Langlois & Son. At that date Miss Elizabeth Langlois was only eight years of age; to her he was married nearly ten years afterwards, viz., on February 27, 1738. This young wife had four brothers. ”

“ Among the statues that of Paris is extreamly beautiful; the whole composes the richest private cabinet I believe to be met with. Mr. Lefroy’s family having taken a different turn from what he propos’d, he would be glad that this treasure he has been collecting this forty years was dispos’d of all together, that the work of his life may not be torn to pieces; that is an idea he cannot bear. If your lordship thinks it would be pleasing to his Majesty, whoever you please may examine the whole — Mr. ”

“ He seems to have been a Levant merchant, and to have prosecuted a commercium nobile in plures Asiaticas regiones. His wonderful collection of medals contained coins of Asia, Cappadocia, Pergamos, Numidia, Mauritania, Cyrene, Syria, Egypt, Pontus, Thracia, Parthia, Paconia. ”