William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot
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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 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Bagot.
Bagot 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, and 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.[1]
He died in London on 22 October 1798, aged 70, and was succeeded by his eldest son William. Lord Bagot had married Elizabeth St John, daughter of the 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 [2] in 1826 and they were the grandparents of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Notes
- ↑ "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,
- Lundy, Darryl. "FAQ". The Peerage.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
| 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 |