Walter Bagot (2 November 1731 – 10 July 1806) was an English cleric and landowner. He was the third son of Sir Walter Bagot of

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. He was educated at

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and graduated

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in 1757. He was ordained in that year and appointed Rector of Leigh, Stafforshire. 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.

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, MP, and Louisa-Frances, who married Rev. Richard

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of Milford Hall, Staffordshire, 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 in 1826; they were the grandparents of the composer

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bagot, Walter 1731 births 1806 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford 18th-century English Anglican priests 19th-century English landowners Younger sons of baronets

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