Stair Agnew

Sir Stair Agnew KCB FRSE (6 December 1831 – 12 July 1916) was a Scottish public official.

He was born at Lochnaw Castle in the parish of Leswalt in Dumfries and Galloway, the fifth son of Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, 7th Baronet and his wife, Madeline Carnegie.

In 1871 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Philip Kelland.

In 1905 he is listed as living at 22 Buckingham Terrace, just west of Dean Bridge in Edinburgh.

[7] He is buried with his wife (who had died only a few weeks earlier) and daughters in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh.