Gerald William Bagot, 5th Baron Bagot (13 May 1866 – 5 April 1946), was an English aristocrat and landowner.

Early life

He was the son of

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Henry Bagot (1846–1922) and, his second wife, Eleanor Chandos-Pole (1843–1886). From his father's first marriage to Wilhelmina Frederica Bagot (daughter of Rt. Hon. Sir

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), he had an elder half-brother, Arthur Greville Bagot, who died in 1915 before inheriting the family titles that Gerald eventually inherited in 1932. From his parents' marriage, he had two elder brothers, Henry Richard Reginald Bagot and Claud Leveson Bagot, who both died without male issue in 1908 and 1930, respectively. His elder sister, Florence Eleanor Bagot, married and divorced their cousin, Charles Frederick Heneage Bagot (a son of the Rev. Charles Walter Bagot).Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes.'' Crans, Switzerland:

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, 1999, volume 1, page 164. His paternal grandparents were Rt. Rev. Hon. Richard Bagot,

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, and Lady Harriet Villiers (a daughter of the 4th Earl of Jersey). His maternal grandparents were Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole and Anna Maria Wilmot (a daughter of Rev. Edward Sacheverel Wilmot). He was educated at

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, Hertfordshire.

Career

On 23 December 1932, he succeeded to the Barony of Bagot's Bromley and the Baronetcy of Blithfield Hall, on the death of his second cousin, art patron William Bagot, 4th Baron Bagot. He also inherited the family home of

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in Staffordshire, together with the Bagot collection which included paintings by "

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, Dürer,

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, Murillo,

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, Hals,

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, and valuable

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s of the reign of

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." In 1945, Lord Bagot sold the dilapidated Blithfield Hall and it's 650-acre estate to the Staffordshire Water Works Company for the creation of

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Personal life

Lord Bagot died, unmarried, on 5 April 1946 in Staffordshire. He was succeeded by his first cousin, once removed, Caryl (a son of the Rev. Lewis Richard Charles Bagot). His wife Nancy, Lady Bagot ( Nancy Spicer) bought back

and 30 acres of the former estate, restoring the Hall as the seat of the family. Upon his death in 1961, the Hall went to his widow and, eventually, to the family of his sister, Enid Bagot Jewitt.Peter W. Hammond, editor, ''The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda'' (Stroud,

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, 1998), page 58.

References

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