Education
Bagier was educated at Pendower Secondary Technical School (merged with neighbouring Street Cuthbert"s Grammar School to become its lower school in 1977) on Fox and Hounds Lane (off the A186) in Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Bagier was educated at Pendower Secondary Technical School (merged with neighbouring Street Cuthbert"s Grammar School to become its lower school in 1977) on Fox and Hounds Lane (off the A186) in Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne.
He served in the Royal Marines from 1941-1945, as a gunner aboard the light cruiser HMS Belfast, and later played a part in her preservation. He was a signals inspector on British Railways. He served as a councillor on Keighley Borough Council 1956-1960 and Sowerby Bridge Urban Council from 1962, and as President of the Yorkshire District Council of the National Union of Railwaymen.
He held the seat until his retirement at the 1987 general election, when his successor was the left-wing journalist Chris Mullin.
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At the 1964 general election, Bagier stood in the Sunderland South constituency, where he defeated the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament, Paul Williams.