David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ The Poor Man’s Friend,
for whom at the enclosure of this parish he secured certain
portions of land, and to whom he let a portion of his glebe
in small allotments.
He died on the 6th of July 1854, aged 94 years and 11 months.
Also of
Mary Demainbray, his widow,
who died on the 7th of October 1S54, aged 84 years.
Miss Demainbray, the daughter, died in 1884, aged eighty-nine, and left money for the poor of the parish. The elder son, Stephen Triboudet Demainbray, Esq., now resides in Cheltenham. ↑ “Musgrave Collection of Autographs in the British Museum,” vol. iii. ”

“ The scheme has proved a permanent one; about 80 acres are still let out in small allotments, and are highly valued by the occupiers. The system having interested other philanthropic persons in England, Mr. Demainbray published a narrative of it in 1831, with the title, “The Poor Man’s Best Friend ”

“ He gave his instructions in the form of lectures on natural philosophy, chiefly electricity and astronomy, in the year 1753. When his senior royal pupil had passed from education, and as king had become engaged to his future queen-consort, Dr. ”