Background
Bagot was the son of Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet, and his wife Lady Barbara Legge.
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 Street John, daughter of the 2nd Viscount Street John, in Wroxham, Oxfordshire, on 20 August 1760.
They had 8 children including William, his successor, but three died of scarlet fever within 3 days.
Sir Charles Bagot and the Honorary Richard Bagot. Lady Bagot died in 1820.
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14th Parliament of Great Britain.