William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot

William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot (28 February 1728 – 22 October 1798), known as Sir William Bagot, 6th Baronet, from 1768 to 1780, was a British politician.

Bagot was the son of Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet, and his wife Lady Barbara Legge. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and graduated Master of Arts in 1749 and Doctor of Civil Law in 1754, and then sat as Member of Parliament for Staffordshire from 1754 to 1780. In 1768 Bagot succeeded to the Baronetcy of Blithfield, Staffordshire, and to the family estate at Blithfield Hall on the death of his father. on 17 October 1780 he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Bagot, of Bagot's Bromley in the County of Stafford.

Lord Bagot married Elizabeth St John, daughter of the 2nd Viscount St John, in 1760. He died in October 1798, aged 70, and was succeeded by his eldest son William. His other sons were Sir Charles Bagot and Richard Bagot. Lady Bagot died in 1820.

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*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage" (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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