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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.

The Right Honourable
The Lord Bagot

William Leveson-Gower
Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot

Sir John Wrottesley
Viscount Lewisham

William Bagot

(1728-02-28)28 February 1728

22 October 1798(1798-10-22) (aged 70)
London, England

Tory

Walter Bagot (brother)
Lewis Bagot (brother)
William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth (grandfather)
Sir Edward Bagot, 4th Baronet (grandfather)

9, including William, Charles, Richard

Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet
Lady Barbara Legge

Blithfield Hall

Magdalen College, Oxford

Career[edit]

Bagot then sat as a Tory 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.[4][5]


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.[6]

Edward Bagot (1763–1773), who died of .[7]

scarlet fever

Walter Bagot (1766–1773), who also died of scarlet fever.

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Barbara Bagot (1768–1773), who also died of scarlet fever.

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(1773–1856), who married Hon. Emily FitzRoy, fourth daughter of Charles FitzRoy, 1st Baron Southampton, in 1799. After her death he married, in 1807, Lady Louisa Legge, eldest daughter of his cousin George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth and his wife Lady Frances Finch (second daughter of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford).[7]

William Bagot, 2nd Baron Bagot

Hon. (1781–1843), who married Lady Mary Wellesley-Pole, eldest daughter of William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington and Katherine Forbes (eldest daughter of Adm. Hon. John Forbes, a son of George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard, and Lady Mary Capell, a daughter of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex).[7]

Sir Charles Bagot

Hon. (1782–1854), the Dean of Canterbury and Bishop of Bath and Wells and Oxford who married Lady Harriet Villiers, the eighth daughter of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey.[7]

Richard Bagot

Hon. Louisa Bagot (d. 1834), who married her cousin (d. 1829) in 1786.[7]

Walter Sneyd

Hon. Henrietta Bagot (d. c. 1807)

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Hon. Frances Bagot (d. 1806), who married, as his first wife, Gen. Hon. , the fourth son of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge.[7]

Sir Edward Paget

On 20 August 1760, Bagot was married to Elizabeth St John (c. 1744–1820) in Wroxham. She was the eldest daughter of John St John, 2nd Viscount St John and the former Anne Furness (only child by his first wife of Sir Robert Furnese, 2nd Baronet) and sister of Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke and Gen. Henry St John. Together, William and Elizabeth had nine children, including:[7]


He died in London on 22 October 1798, aged 70, and was succeeded by his eldest son William. Lady Bagot died in 1820.[7]

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