Background
He was the eldest son of John Bagwell, Member of Parliament
He was the eldest son of John Bagwell, Member of Parliament
Bagwell was educated at Harrow and Oxford in England and called to the Bar, being admitted to Inner Temple in 1866.
Foreign Clonmel from 1857 to 1874. He was the author of Ireland Under the Tudors (1885-1890) and Ireland Under the Stuarts, 3 volumes (1909-1910), in recognition for which he was given the honorary degree of Little
Doctorate. by Dublin University in 1913 and that of Doctor of Literature by Oxford University in 1917.
He also wrote the historical entry on ‘Ireland’ for the Encyclopaedia Britannica (Chicago 1911). He held the position of High Sheriff of County Tipperary in 1869.
He was a Justice of the Peace for County Tipperary (and later for Waterford), and held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Tipperary. He was also Special Local Government Commissioner between 1898 and 1903 and President of the Borstal Association of Ireland.
Bagwell was a Commissioner on National Education between 1905 and 1918 and a member of the Patriotic Union (Southern Unionists).