Richard Bagot

Arms of Richard Bagot, Bishop of Oxford and Chancellor of the Order of the Garter: Arms of See of Oxford impaling Ermine, two chevrons azure (Bagot) circumscribed by the Garter. Tiles created by A.W.N Pugin The Honourable Richard Bagot (22 November 1782 – 15 May 1854) was an English bishop.

Early life Bagot was born on 22 November 1782 at Staffordshire. He was a younger son of William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot, of Blithfield Hall, by the Hon. Elizabeth Louisa St John. Among his siblings were William Bagot, 2nd Baron Bagot, and Sir Charles Bagot.

Bagot was educated at Rugby School

Career In 1804, Bagot was elected to a fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, which he resigned two years later upon his marriage. He was the first Bishop of Oxford to be ex officio Chancellor of the Order of the Garter (from 1837 to 1845).

Holding the see of Oxford through the early years of the Tractarian movement, the Tory Bagot, hostile to Low Church attitudes, was initially and notably sympathetic to John Henry Newman and his associates. That did change by the first years of the 1840s, and Bagot did act in particular against the preaching of Edward Pusey.

Edward Richard Bagot (1808–1874), a Maj.-Gen. who married Matilda Perkins, daughter of Henry Perkins, in 1842. Villiers Bagot (1809–1810), who died young.

Bagot died at Staffordshire on 15 May 1854.