3-052-609 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Members of the new House of Commons: Mr. W. Agnew (South-East Lancashire), 1880. 'Eldest son of the late Mr. Thomas Agnew, Mayer of Salford in 1851, founder of the firm of T. Agnew and Sons, of London, Manchester, and Liverpool, fine-art publishers, was born about 1825. Is now senior partner in the firm. Was one of the promoters of the Fine-Art Exhibition in Manchester in 1857. Mr. Robert Leake, his cousin, is the other M.P. for South-East Lancashire'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.