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 as ...

in 1626 and Member of Parliament (MP) for

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...

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 building, Grade I listed English country house, country house in Staffordshire, England, situated some east of Stafford, southwest of Uttoxeter and north of ...

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

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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 (a small hamlet in Staffordshire), Newton along with Blithfield Hall, home of the Bagot family since 1360. It i ...

; his title was inherited by his eldest surviving son

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 Surry County or Isle of Wight County,

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References

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