David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ The Political Economy of a Weekly Sabbath, as corrective of the secular and cold-blooded system of six days’ pay for seven days’ work, was not generally understood in his day, so that he was betrayed into upbraiding my benevolent and patriotic father, the late Sir Andrew Agnew, as a Pharisee. Neither did my father then (nor myself now) feel any resentment against him in consequence, being only disposed to apply to him a parody of the late Lady Dufferin’s celebrated song, and to say
’Tis a pity when charming scribblers
Write of things that they don’t understand. ”

“ His career in the Examiner extended to seventeen years; and in 1847 Lord John Russell gave him the post of Statistical Secretary to the Board of Trade. Albany Fonblanque called himself “a philosophical radical,” and distinct from those “who are radicals because they are not lords.” ”

“ The surname of this Huguenot family was Grenier, a corruption of Garniero; pointing to Italian ancestry. The senior branch was represented as late as 1829 by the late César de Garnier, Marquis de Juliers. The junior branch were the Greniers of Languedoc, eminent in the Huguenot civil wars; a member of the family was created Comte de Fonblanque by Henri IV., Fonblanque being a fief in the Forêt de la Gresine, near Bruniquet. In 1685 a Grenier de Fonblanque was tried and executed for having harboured a Huguenot pasteur. ”