David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ He was born at Calcutta, 27th October 1789, and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford; he was chaplain to the Earl of Caledon, and served the curacies of Frome, Somerset, and of Were, Wiltshire, during which period he sometimes felt that preferment is dispensed on the principle, “They who ask, shall not have; and they who don’t ask, don’t want.” ”

“ This pious ancestor became a refugee in Holland in 1685, and served there as a military officer, and came to England with William III. He served in the Irish campaigns, and married in 1692 Elizabeth, daughter and sole heir of Joseph Sheffield, Esq. ”