William Bagot, 3rd Baron Bagot
William Bagot, 3rd Baron Bagot DL, styled The Honourable from birth until 1856, was a British courtier and Conservative politician.
Background
Born at Blithfield House, he was the eldest son of William Bagot, 2nd Baron Bagot and his second wife Lady Louisa, daughter of George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth. Bagot was educated at Charterhouse School, then at Eton College and finally at Magdalene College, Cambridge.Career
He was returned to Parliament for Denbighshire in 1835, a seat he held until 1852. In 1856, Bagot succeeded his father as baron, entering the House of Lords. He served in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli as a Lord-in-waiting from 1866 to 1868 and again from 1874 to 1880.Apart from his political career he was Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Prince Consort between 1858 and the next year.
He was commissioned as a captain in the part-time Staffordshire Yeomanry on 29 August 1827, commanding the Uttoxeter Troop during the Chartist disturbances in 1842 and later acting as regimental commander in the absence of the elderly commanding officer. He was promoted to major on 25 April 1848 and lieutenant-colonel in 1851, and was appointed Lt-Col Commandant on 11 April 1854. He retired from the command in 1874 and was appointed the regiment's first honorary colonel. He was also a deputy lieutenant for Staffordshire.