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 Earl of Glengall was a title in the Peerage of Ireland that was created in 1816 for Richard Butler, 10th Baron Cahir. The subsidiary title of Baron Cahir (also spelt Caher) in the Peerage of Ireland was first created in 1542 for Thomas Butler, ...

. 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 of Marlfield and Inishlounaght. It replaced an older settlement named Abbey, which had developed near the ...

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A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland
John Burke, 1838 *

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* , - 1776 births 1826 deaths Irish MPs 1798–1800 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Tipperary constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1801–1802 UK MPs 1802–1806 UK MPs 1806–1807 UK MPs 1807–1812 UK MPs 1812–1818 UK MPs 1818–1820 UK MPs 1820–1826 Tory MPs (pre-1834) Politicians from County Tipperary Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Tory members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Cork constituencies People from Clonmel {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub