Gerald Bagot, 5th Baron Bagot

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 Vice-Admiral Henry Bagot (1846–1922) and, his second wife, Eleanor Chandos-Pole (1843–1886).

His paternal grandparents were Rt. Rev. Hon. Richard Bagot, Bishop of Oxford, 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 also inherited the family home of Blithfield Hall in Staffordshire, together with the Bagot collection which included paintings by "Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Peter Lely, Veronese, Dürer, Van Dyck, Murillo, Le Nain, Hals, Van Eyck, and valuable relics of the reign of Charles I."

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 Blithfield Hall 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.