Sir Adolphus Oughton, 1st Baronet (c. 1685 – 4 September 1736), of Tachbrook, Warwickshire, was a British Army officer and politician. Oughton was the son of Adolphus Oughton and Mary Samwell, daughter of Richard Samwell, of Upton,

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and the

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(1703). He joined the British Army and was a captain and lieutenant-colonel in the

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(1706), a 1st major and colonel in the

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(1715) and a lieutenant-colonel (1717) in the 8th Dragoons, of which regiment he assumed the colonelcy in 1733. He was promoted brigadier-general in 1735. He was

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to the Prince of Wales from 1714 to 1717. He sat as

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for

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between 1715 and 1736. In 1718 he was created a baronet, of Tetchbrook in the County of Warwick. He died in September 1736. He had first married his cousin, Frances Wagstaffe, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Wagstaffe and the widow of

Sir Edward Bagot, 4th Baronet Sir Edward Bagot, 4th Baronet (21 January 1674 – May 1712) succeeded to the Baronetcy of Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire, on the death of his father Sir Walter Bagot in 1704. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church ( la, � ...

, M.P., of Blithfield, Staffordshire. He secondly married Elizabeth, the daughter of John Baber of Sunninghill, Berkshire. He had no legitimate children and thus the baronetcy became extinct, although he did however leave an illegitimate son, James Adolphus Dickenson Oughton, who became a lieutenant-general in the British Army.

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