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Walter Bagot (priest)
English cleric and landowner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter Bagot (2 November 1731 – 10 July 1806) was an English cleric and landowner. He was the third son of Sir Walter Bagot of Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire.
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He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and graduated Master of Arts in 1757.[1] He was ordained in that year and appointed Rector of Leigh, Stafforshire.[2] In 1759 he was appointed Rector of Blithfield.
He inherited Pype Hayes Hall, which had been in the Bagot family since 1630, on the death of a cousin.
He married twice:
- firstly in 1773 to Anne Swinnerton by whom he had seven children, including his eldest son and heir, Rev. Egerton Bagot, and daughters, Elizabeth (died 5 Mar 1859), who married Dr. Joseph Phillimore, MP, and Louisa-Frances, who married Rev. Richard Levett of Milford Hall, Staffordshire,[3] also an Oxford graduate and a minister.
- secondly to Mary Ward by whom he had another eight children, including a daughter, Jane Margaret, who married the English judge Sir Edward Vaughan Williams[4] in 1826; they were the grandparents of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.