Sir Hervey Bagot, 1st Baronet (8 February 1591 – 27 December 1660) was an English MP. He was born in Checkley, Staffordshire, the son of Walter Bagot and Elizabeth Cave. He matriculated at

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University on 18 November 1608. Until his first marriage he lived in Checkley and then moved to Field Hall, near the family's ancestral Blithfield home. He was

High Sheriff of Staffordshire This is a list of the sheriffs and high sheriffs of Staffordshire. The sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. The sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities ass ...

in 1626 and

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(MP) for Staffordshire in 1628–29 and 1641–42. He was created 1st Baronet Bagot of

Blithfield Hall Blithfield Hall (pronounced locally as Bliffield), is a privately-owned Grade I listed country house in Staffordshire, England, situated some east of Stafford, southwest of Uttoxeter and north of Rugeley. The Hall, with its embattled towers ...

in the Baronetage of England on 31 May 1627.

Family

Bagot married twice; firstly Katherine Adderley, daughter of Humphrey Adderley, Esq. Lord of the Manor of Weddington, Warwickshire and Gentleman of the Wardrobe to King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I. By his first wife he had six children, including his successor Edward and Richard. Secondly, Ann Fisher, daughter of Sir Clement Fisher. Bagot died at Field Hall and was buried at

Blithfield Blithfield is a civil parish in the East Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England. It includes the settlements of Admaston, Staffordshire, Admaston (a small hamlet in Staffordshire), Newton, Staffordshire, Newton along with Blithfield ...

; his title was inherited by his eldest surviving son Edward.

Legacy and the Virginia Line

A probable nephew of Hervey Bagot, John Bagot, married Martha Mathews, and went to the

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. This John changed the family name to Baggett and started the American branch of the Bagot/Baggett family. He lived in either Surrey Co. or Isle of Wight Co.,

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References

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