Richard Bagot (bishop)
The Honourable Richard Bagot was an English bishop.
Early life
Bagot was born on 22 November 1782 at Staffordshire. He was a younger son of William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot, of Blithfield Hall, 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, and Lady Barbara Legge. His paternal uncle was Bishop Lewis Bagot. His maternal grandparents were John St John, 2nd Viscount St John and Anne Furness.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, page 58
Bagot was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford.
Career
In 1804, Bagot was elected to a fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, which he resigned two years later upon his marriage.He served as Rector of Leigh and Blithfield and Prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral. He was Canon of Windsor from 1822 to 1827, Dean of Canterbury from 1827 to 1845, Bishop of Oxford from 1829 to 1845 and Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1845 to 1854. He was the first Bishop of Oxford to be ex officio Chancellor of the Order of the Garter.
Holding the see of Oxford through the early years of the Tractarian movement, the Tory Bagot, hostile to Low Church attitudes, was initially and notably sympathetic to John Henry Newman and his associates. That did change by the first years of the 1840s, and Bagot did act in particular against the preaching of Edward Pusey.
Personal life
In 1806, Bagot married Lady Harriet Villiers, daughter of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey. Together, they had eight sons, three of whom became clergy and three joined the armed services, and four daughters:- Edward Richard Bagot, a Maj.-Gen. who married Matilda Perkins, daughter of Henry Perkins, in 1842.
- Villiers Bagot, who died young.
- Henry Bagot, a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy; he married his first cousin Wilhelmina Frederica Bagot, daughter of Sir Charles Bagot and Lady Mary Wellesley-Pole, 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, a cleric; he married Mary Chester, daughter of Lt.-Gen. John Chester and Sophia Elizabeth Stuart, in 1846.
- Lewis Francis Bagot, a cleric; he married Hon. Catherine Boscawen, a daughter of Rev. Hon. John Evelyn Boscawen and Catherine Elizabeth Annesley, in 1848.
- Harriet Frances Bagot, who married Rev. Lord Charles Thynne, a son of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath and Hon. Isabella Elizabeth Byng, in 1837.
- George Bagot, a Maj. in the British Army; he married Hon. Mary Eleanor Frances Browne, daughter of John Browne, 3rd Baron Kilmaine and Mary Law, in 1861.
- Frances Caroline Bagot, who died at age 21.
- Richard Bagot, who died at age 19.
- Frederick Bagot, a cleric; he married Charlotte Anne Philippine Pearse, daughter of Brice Pearse, in 1862.
- Emily Mary Bagot, who married Hon. George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman, second son of George Bridgeman, 2nd Earl of Bradford, in 1850.
- Mary Isabel Bagot, who married William Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe in 1843.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 482.