Sir John Keith Agnew, 6th Baronet (19 December 1950 – 22 June 2011) was the owner of the Rougham estates in

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, England. He was the son of Sir George Keith Agnew, fifth Baronet (1918–1994), and his Danish-born wife Baroness Anne Merete Louise Schaffalitzky de Muckadell (

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1924 – 31 March 2005).''Who's Who 2003'' (London: A. & C. Black, 2003) p. 13Sir J.K. Agnew at ThePeerage.com
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, from 1964 to 1969 and then at the

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. He succeeded to the UK

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(Agnew, of The Planche, Suffolk, created 1895) in 1994. The Rougham estates include

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, where Agnew organized a wide variety of annual fairs, rallies and events, including the ''Wings, Wheels & Steam Country Fair'', the annual ''Rougham Air Display & Harvest Fair'', and the ''East Anglian Medieval Battle & Fair''. A Rougham Music Festival, of which Agnew's brother and heir George Agnew was the Arts Director, was also held on the estate. Agnew started ''Green Deserts'' which planned to help stop

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in the Sudan and elsewhere. Sir John Agnew of Rougham should not be confused with his cousin John Stuart Agnew of Rougham, farmer, a parliamentary candidate of the

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. The title was created for their ancestor Sir William Agnew (1825–1910), a member of parliament and international art dealer, who bought the Rougham estates in 1904.''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'', 11th edition Agnew's brother George Anthony Agnew (born 18 August 1953) succeeded him as 7th baronet.

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