Sir Stair Agnew KCB

Order of the Bath

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 FRSE

Royal Society of Edinburgh

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 (6 December 1831 – 12 July 1916) was a Scottish

Scotland

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 public official.

The fifth son of Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, 7th Baronet

Sir Andrew Agnew, 7th Baronet

Sir Andrew Agnew, 7th Baronet was the son of Andrew Agnew and Hon. Martha de Courcy.-Succession:He succeeded his grandfather as 7th Baronet Agnew, of Lochnaw on the latter's death on 28 June 1809...

, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge

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, graduating in 1855. He rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge boat race

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 in 1854.

He worked as an Advocate

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 from 1860, and was Legal Secretary to the Lord Advocate

Lord Advocate

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 from 1861-1866 and 1868-1870, Queen's Remembrancer for Scotland

Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer

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 from 1870-1881, and Registrar-General for Scotland

General Register Office for Scotland

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 and Deputy Clerk Register from 1881-1909.

He was awarded the CB

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

in 1885 and knighted (KCB) in 1895.