William Bagwell (1849-1928)
William Bagwell may refer to: *William Bagwell (politician) (1776–1826), Irish politician *William Bagwell (writer) (fl. 1655), merchant and writer on astronomy *Bill Bagwell William Mallory Bagwell (February 24, 1895 – October 5, 1976), nicknamed "Big Bill", was a pinch hitter and left fielder in Major League Baseball. He played for the Boston Braves and Philadelphia Athletics during the 1920s. Bagwell was 6 feet, ...

William Bagwell (politician)
William Bagwell (1776 – 4 November 1826) was an Irish Tory politician who served for more than twenty years as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom House of Commons. He was the son of John Bagwell, M.P., and Mary, née Hare. He was the Member of Parliament for Rathcormack in the Parliament of Ireland from 1798 until the Union with Great Britain at the end of 1800, when the constituency of Rathcormack was disenfranchised. He was elected at a by-election in 1801 as MP for constituency of Clonmel in the Parliament of the United Kingdom and held that seat until his resignation in 1819 to fight a by-election for the Tipperary seat when the prior member succeeded to the Irish Peerage as Earl of Glengall. He won the seat and held it until the 1826 general election He resided at the family mansion at Marlfield, Clonmel Marlfield ( Gaeilge:''Gort an Mharla'') is a village three kilometres west of Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. It is within the townlands o ...
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William Bagwell (writer)
William Bagwell (fl. 1655) was a London merchant and writer on astronomy. Life The inscription on his portrait in 1659 gives his age as 66, so that he was probably born in 1593. According to his own account in ''The Mystery of Astronomy made Plain'', he was a merchant, had travelled and traded widely; overseas losses led to his being sent to prison for debt. In 1654 he had been in and out of prison for twenty years. After being set at liberty in 1654 Bagwell was put by some friends in good employment. Works In confinement Bagwell wrote an ''Arithmetical Description of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes''; the manuscript is in the British Library. In 1655 he published ''The Mystery of Astronomy made Plain'', a simplification of his more elaborate treatise. Philip Bliss, in a note to Anthony Wood''Fasti'' ii. 221. states that he dedicated his ''Sphinx Thebanus or Ingenious Riddle'', 1664, to the physician Humphry Brook as patron. In 1645 Bagwell had published ''The Distressed ...
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