The HonourableRichard Bagot(22 November 1782 – 15 May 1854) was an English bishop.
Life
editBagot was a younger son ofWilliam Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot,ofBlithfield Hall,Staffordshire,by the Honourable Elizabeth Louisa St John, daughter ofJohn St John, 2nd Viscount St John.William Bagot, 2nd Baron Bagot,andSir Charles Bagotwere his elder brothers; BishopLewis Bagotwas his uncle.
Bagot was educated atRugby School[2]andChrist Church, Oxford(matriculated 1799,B.A.1803,M.A.1806,D.D.by diploma 1829[3]), and in 1804 was elected to a fellowship atAll Souls College, Oxford,which he resigned two years later upon his marriage.[2]
Bagot was Rector of Leigh and Blithfield andPrebendaryofLichfield Cathedral.He wasCanon of Windsorfrom 1822 to 1827,Dean of Canterbury1827–1845,Bishop of Oxford1829–1845 andBishop of Bath and Wells1845–1854.[2]He was the first Bishop of Oxford to beex officioChancellor of the Order of the Garter(from 1837 to 1845).
Holding the see of Oxford through the early years of theTractarianmovement, the Tory Bagot, hostile toLow Churchattitudes, was initially and notably sympathetic toJohn Henry Newmanand his associates. That did change by the first years of the 1840s, and Bagot did act in particular against the preaching ofEdward Pusey.[2]
Family
editBagot married Lady Harriet Villiers, daughter ofGeorge Villiers, 4th Earl of Jerseyin 1806. They had eight sons (three of whom became clergy and three joined the armed services) and four daughters:[4]
- Edward Richard Bagot, army officer
- Villiers, died young in 1810
- Henry Bagot R.N.
- Charles Walter Bagot, cleric
- Louis Francis Bagot, cleric
- Harriet Frances, married 1837 Rev. Lord Charles Thynne
- George Bagot, army officer
- Frances Caroline, died 1840 at age 21
- Richard Bagot, died 1840 at age 19
- Frederick Bagot, cleric
- Emily Mary (died 1853), married in 1850 theHon.George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman,second son ofGeorge Bridgeman, 2nd Earl of Bradford
- Mary Isabel, married in 1843William Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe.
References
edit- ^Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.39
- ^abcdNockles, Peter B. "Bagot, Richard".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1039.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.).The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource:.Dictionary of National Biography.London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^Foster, Joseph..– viaWikisource.
- ^The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review.Bradbury, Evans. 1854. p. 71.