William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot

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William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot, by Sir Joshua Reynolds

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.

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.

Lord Bagot 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. He died in London on 22 October 1798, aged 70, and was succeeded by his eldest son William. His other sons were the Hon. Sir Charles Bagot and the Hon. Richard Bagot. Lady Bagot died in 1820.

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• 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