Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1845 to 1854
Richard Bagot, wearing regalia as Chancellor of the Order of the Garter
Arms of Richard Bagot, Bishop of Oxford and Chancellor of the Order of the Garter: Arms of See of Oxford impaling Ermine, two chevrons azure (Bagot)
[1] circumscribed by the Garter. Tiles created by A.W.N Pugin
The Honourable Richard Bagot (22 November 1782 – 15 May 1854) was an English bishop.
Life
Bagot was a younger son of
William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot , of
Blithfield Hall ,
Staffordshire , by the Honourable Elizabeth Louisa St John, daughter of
John St John, 2nd Viscount St John .
William Bagot, 2nd Baron Bagot , and
Sir Charles Bagot were his elder brothers; Bishop
Lewis Bagot was his uncle.
Bagot was educated at
Rugby School
[2] and
Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1799,
B.A. 1803,
M.A. 1806,
D.D. by diploma 1829
[3] ), and in 1804 was elected to a fellowship at
All Souls College, Oxford , which he resigned two years later upon his marriage.
[2]
Bagot was Rector of Leigh and Blithfield and
Prebendary of
Lichfield Cathedral . He was
Canon of Windsor from 1822 to 1827,
Dean of Canterbury 1827–1845,
Bishop of Oxford 1829–1845 and
Bishop of Bath and Wells 1845–1854.
[2] He was the first Bishop of Oxford to be ex officio
Chancellor of the Order of the Garter (from 1837 to 1845).
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 .
[2]
Family
Bagot married Lady Harriet Villiers, daughter of
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey in 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 the
Hon.George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman , second son of
George Bridgeman, 2nd Earl of Bradford
Mary Isabel, married in 1843
William Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe .
References
^ Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.39
^
a
b
c
d Nockles, Peter B. "Bagot, Richard".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/1039 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.) . The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource:
"Bagot, Richard" .
Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^
Foster, Joseph .
"Bagot, Richard (2)" .
Alumni Oxonienses – via
Wikisource .
^
The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review . Bradbury, Evans. 1854. p. 71.
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