John Alexander Agnew

John A. Agnew
Herbert Hoover in 1898, photographed in Perth, Western Australia.
An unadopted hand-drawn essay for the 1878–83 Large Dragon stamps of China bought by John Agnew from Sir Robert Hart. Subsequently, acquired by Sir Percival David and latterly by Meiso Mizuhara.[1]

John Alexander Agnew (1872 – 2 August 1939) was a New Zealand mining engineer who worked with future United States president Herbert Hoover and later became chairman of Consolidated Gold Fields, the first chairman of the firm to be from a mining engineering background. In his spare time he was a noted philatelist whose collection of Chinese stamps and postal history was regarded as one of the finest of his era.

  1. ^ Auction: 16012 – Meiso Mizuhara, The Exhibition Collections, The Chinese Customs Post Lot: 1514. Archived 6 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine Spink. Retrieved 6 October 2016.