- GB-2014-WSA-02459
- Person
- 1728-1798
BAGOT, WILLIAM, 1st BARON BAGOT, second son of Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot, Bart., MP, Blithfield, Staffs., and Lady Barbara Legge, eldest dau. of William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth (qv); b. 28 Feb 1728; adm. from Repton Sch. Feb 1738/9 (Watts'); left 1746; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Feb 1746/7; MA 1749; DCL 1754; Grand Tour (France, Italy) 1750-2; MP Staffordshire 1754-80; succeeded his father as 6th baronet 28 Jan 1768; created Baron Bagot (GB) 17 Oct 1780; of Blithfield, Staffs.; m. 20 Aug 1760 Hon. Elizabeth Louisa St. John, only surviving dau. of John St. John, 2nd Viscount St. John; d. 22 Oct 1798.