William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot

William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot, by Sir Joshua Reynolds

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.

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 St John, daughter of the 2nd Viscount St John, in Wroxham, Oxon, on 20 August 1760. They had 8 children including William, his successor, but three died of scarlet fever within 3 days. He died in London on 22 October 1798, aged 70, and was succeeded by his eldest son William. His other sons were the Hon. Sir Charles Bagot and the Hon. Richard Bagot. His daughter Jane Margaret married the English judge Sir Edward Vaughan Williams in 1826 and they were the grandparents of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Lady Bagot died in 1820.

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    Parliament of Great Britain
    Preceded by
    William Leveson-Gower
    Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot
    Member of Parliament for Staffordshire
    1754–1780
    Served alongside: William Leveson-Gower 1754–1757
    Henry Thynne 1757–1761
    Lord Grey of Groby 1761–1768
    Sir John Wrottesley 1768–1780
    Succeeded by
    Sir John Wrottesley
    Viscount Lewisham
    Peerage of Great Britain
    New creation Baron Bagot
    1780–1798
    Succeeded by
    William Bagot
    Baronetage of England
    Preceded by
    Walter Wagstaffe Bagot
    Baronet
    (of Blithfield)
    1768–1798
    Succeeded by
    William Bagot
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