William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot

William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot (28 February 1728 – 22 October 1798), known as Sir William Bagot, 6th Baronet, from 1768 to 1780, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1780. He was then raised to the peerage as Baron Bagot.

Life

He was the son of Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet, and his wife Lady Barbara Legge. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and graduated Master of Arts in 1749 and Doctor of Civil Law in 1754.^[1]

Bagot then sat as Member of Parliament for Staffordshire from 1754 to 1780. In 1768 Bagot succeeded to the Baronetcy of Blithfield, Staffordshire, and to the family estate at Blithfield Hall on the death of his father. On 17 October 1780 he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Bagot, of Bagot's Bromley in the County of Stafford.^[2]

He died in London on 22 October 1798, aged 70, and was succeeded by his eldest son William.

Family

Bagot married Elizabeth St John, daughter of the John St John, 2nd Viscount St John, in Wroxham, Oxon, on 20 August 1760. They had 8 children including William, his successor, but three died of scarlet fever within 3 days. His other sons were the Hon. Sir Charles Bagot and the Hon. Richard Bagot. Lady Bagot died in 1820.

Lord Bagot's niece, Jane Margaret (daughter of his brother Walter by his second wife, Mary Ward) married the English judge Sir Edward Vaughan Williams ^[3] in 1826 and they were the grandparents of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Notes

^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Bagot, William (1)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
^ "BAGOT, William (1728–98), of Blithfield, Staffs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
^ "Annotated Obituary, in 'The Patrician', Vol. 2, p. 90, by John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke (published by E. Churton, 1846)". Retrieved 10 September 2017.

References

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, ^{[page needed]}
Lundy, Darryl. "FAQ". The Peerage.^{[unreliable source]}
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages ^{[self-published source]} ^{[better source needed]}

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by William Leveson-Gower Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot	Member of Parliament for Staffordshire 1754–1780 Served alongside: William Leveson-Gower 1754–1757 Henry Thynne 1757–1761 Lord Grey of Groby 1761–1768 Sir John Wrottesley 1768–1780	Succeeded by Sir John Wrottesley Viscount Lewisham
Peerage of Great Britain
New creation	Baron Bagot 1780–1798	Succeeded by William Bagot
Baronetage of England
Preceded by Walter Wagstaffe Bagot	Baronet (of Blithfield) 1768–1798	Succeeded by William Bagot

[1] Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Bagot, William (1)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.

[HOP-2] "BAGOT, William (1728–98), of Blithfield, Staffs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 December 2017.

[3] "Annotated Obituary, in 'The Patrician', Vol. 2, p. 90, by John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke (published by E. Churton, 1846)". Retrieved 10 September 2017.

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