Walter Bagot (2 November 1731 – 10 July 1806) was an English cleric and landowner. He was the third son of Sir Walter Bagot of Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire.
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He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and graduated Master of Arts in 1757.[1] He was ordained in that year and appointed Rector of Leigh, Stafforshire.[2] In 1759 he was appointed Rector of Blithfield.
He inherited Pype Hayes Hall, which had been in the Bagot family since 1630, on the death of a cousin.
He married twice:
- firstly in 1773 to Anne Swinnerton by whom he had seven children, including his eldest son and heir, Rev. Egerton Bagot, and daughters, Elizabeth (died 5 Mar 1859), who married Dr. Joseph Phillimore, MP, and Louisa-Frances, who married Rev. Richard Levett of Milford Hall, Staffordshire,[3] also an Oxford graduate and a minister.
- secondly to Mary Ward by whom he had another eight children, including a daughter, Jane Margaret, who married the English judge Sir Edward Vaughan Williams[4] in 1826; they were the grandparents of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
See also
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edit- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ William, Bagot (2nd baron.) (1824). Memorials of the Bagot Family. W. Hodgetts.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Memorials of the Bagot Family, William Bagot Bagot, 2nd Baron William Bagot Bagot, W. Hodgetts, Blithfield, 1824
- ^ Burke, John; Burke, Bernard (1846). "Annotated Obituary, in 'The Patrician', Vol. 2, p. 90, by John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke (published by E. Churton, 1846)". Retrieved 10 September 2017.