Brigadier-General James Tanner Agnew, of Howlish Hall, Co Durham (1719 – 4 October 1777) was a British Army officer reportedly killed by a sniper in the Battle of Germantown during the American Revolutionary War.

While leading his 4th brigade in support of Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Germantown, General Agnew was shot by a sniper and the damage severed his spine and left him paralyzed.

[2] The sniper who shot General Agnew is rumored to be Hans Philip Boyer but there aren't many sources to solidify this claim.

[3] His soldiers brought him back to his quarters in John Wister's Big House (now called Grumblethorpe) on Germantown Avenue.

He is buried at De Benneville Family Burial Grounds,[4] on the 6000 block of North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania