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Richard Bagot (22 November 1782 – 15 May 1854) was an English bishop.

Early life

Bagot was born on 22 November 1782 at

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...

. He was a younger son of

William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot 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 who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1780. He was then raised to the peerage as B ...

, of

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, by the Hon. Elizabeth Louisa St John. Among his siblings were William Bagot, 2nd Baron Bagot, and Sir Charles Bagot. His father was the eldest son of

Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot, 5th Baronet (3 August 1702 – 20 January 1768) of Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1724 and 1768. Early life Bagot was the eldest surviving son of ...

, and Lady Barbara Legge (a daughter of the 1st Earl of Dartmouth). His paternal uncle was Bishop

Lewis Bagot Lewis Bagot (1 January 1740 – 4 June 1802) was an English cleric who served as the Bishop of Bristol, Bishop of Norwich, Norwich, and Bishop of St Asaph, St Asaph. Early life He was the fifth son of Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet, Sir Walter W ...

. His maternal grandparents were

John St John, 2nd Viscount St John John St John (3 May 1702 – 1748) of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734. St John was the second surviving son of Henry St John, 1st Viscount St John MP, and his second wife An ...

and Anne Furness (a daughter of

Sir Robert Furnese, 2nd Baronet Sir Robert Furnese, 2nd Baronet (1 August 1687 – 7 March 1733), of Waldershare, Kent, and Dover Street, Westminster, was an English Whigs (British political party), Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain, British Hous ...

, and sister of

Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, 3rd Viscount St John (21 December 1732 – 5 May 1787), was a British peer and landowner. His father was John St John, 2nd Viscount St John, half-brother of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke ( ...

and Gen. Henry St John).Peter W. Hammond, editor, ''The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda'' (Stroud,

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, 1998), page 58 Bagot was educated at

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and

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(matriculated 1799,

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1803,

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1806,

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by diploma 1829).

Career

In 1804, Bagot was elected to a fellowship at

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, which he resigned two years later upon his marriage. He served as Rector of Leigh and Blithfield and

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. He was

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from 1822 to 1827,

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from 1827 to 1845,

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from 1829 to 1845 and

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from 1845 to 1854.. He was the first Bishop of Oxford to be ''ex officio''

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(from 1837 to 1845). Holding the see of Oxford through the early years of the

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movement, the Tory Bagot, hostile to

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attitudes, was initially and notably sympathetic to

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and his associates. That did change by the first years of the 1840s, and Bagot did act in particular against the preaching of

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Personal life

In 1806, Bagot married Lady Harriet Villiers (1788–1870), daughter of

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. Together, they had eight sons, three of whom became clergy and three joined the armed services, and four daughters: * Edward Richard Bagot (1808–1874), a Maj.-Gen. who married Matilda Perkins, daughter of Henry Perkins, in 1842.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes.'' Crans, Switzerland:

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, 1999, volume 1, page 163. * Villiers Bagot (1809–1810), who died young. * Henry Bagot (1810–1877), a Vice-Admiral in the

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; he married his first cousin Wilhelmina Frederica Bagot, daughter of Sir Charles Bagot and Lady Mary Wellesley-Pole (a daughter of the 3rd Earl of Mornington), in 1846. After her death, he married Eleanor Chandos-Pole, daughter of Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole and Anna Maria Wilmot, in 1858. * Charles Walter Bagot (1812–1886), a cleric; he married Mary Chester, daughter of Lt.-Gen. John Chester and Sophia Elizabeth Stuart, in 1846. * Lewis Francis Bagot (1813–1870), a cleric; he married Hon. Catherine Boscawen, a daughter of Rev. Hon. John Evelyn Boscawen (a son of the 3rd Viscount Falmouth) and Catherine Elizabeth Annesley, in 1848. * Harriet Frances Bagot (1816–1881), who married Rev. Lord Charles Thynne, a son of

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and Hon. Isabella Elizabeth Byng (a daughter of the 4th Viscount Torrington), in 1837. * George Bagot (1818–1867), a Maj. in the British Army; he married Hon. Mary Eleanor Frances Browne, daughter of

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and Mary Law (a granddaughter of the 1st Baron Ellenborough), in 1861. * Frances Caroline Bagot (1819–1840), who died at age 21. * Richard Bagot (1821–1840), who died at age 19. * Frederick Bagot (1822–1892), a cleric; he married Charlotte Anne Philippine Pearse, daughter of Brice Pearse, in 1862. * Emily Mary Bagot (1823–1853), who married Hon. George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman, second son of

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, in 1850. * Mary Isabel Bagot (1825–1900), who married

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in 1843.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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, 2003, volume 1, page 482. Bagot died at

on 15 May 1854.

References

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