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[[File:John A. Agnew.jpg|thumb|John A. Agnew]]

[[File:Esssay for the 1878-83 The Large Dragon Issue stamps of China.jpg|thumb|An unadopted hand-drawn [[Essay (philately)|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.<ref>[https://www.spink.com/lot-description.aspx?id=16012001514 Auction: 16012 - Meiso Mizuhara, The Exhibition Collections, The Chinese Customs Post Lot: 1514.] Spink. Retrieved 6 October 2016.</ref>]]

'''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.