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and became progenitor to the succeeding Barons and Earls of 

 Stafford, and Dukes of Buckingham. From Bagod Dominus Me- 

 dietatis de Bramale, descended Sir John Bagot, Knt. Lieutenant 

 of Calais, and Privy Counsellor to Henry IV. ancestor of Sir Lewis 

 Bagot, Knt. who was of the hody to Henry VII. and from whom 

 descended Walter Bagot, who m. Elizabeth, sister to William Lord 

 Burleigh, by whom he had four daughters and five sons, the eldest 

 of which died in the life-time of the father, and the second, Her- 

 vey, ancestor of the present Lord, was created a Baronet May 30, 

 1627. His Lordship's grandfather, Sir Edward Bagot, the fourth 

 Baronet of the family, and lineally descended from Henry the 

 first Baronet, m. Frances, daughter and sole heir of Sir Thomas 

 Wagstaffe, Knt. of Tachbrooke, in Warwickshire (who surviving^ 

 him, m. the late Sir Adolphus Houghton, Bart.) By this Lady he 

 had issue two sons and two daughters ; Hervey, d. an infant, 1699; 

 Walter Wagstaffe, his successor ; Frances, m. Sir John Chester, 

 Bart, of Chichley, in Bucks ; Jane, m. Craven Kynnersley, Esq. 

 of Loxley, in Staffordshire. Sir Edward d. May 1712, and was 

 succeeded by his only surviving son, 



Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot, Bart. m. in 1724 Barbara, eldest 

 daughter of William Earl of Dartmouth, by whom (who d. Oct. 

 29, 1765) he had eight sons and eight daughters : the sons were 

 Edward and John, d. infants; William, his successor, the first 

 Lord; Walter, in holy orders, b. Nov. 2, 1731, m. September 7, 

 1773, Anne, daughter of W., Swinnerton, Esq. of Staffordshire, 

 and has five children, one of whom, Honora, m. Dec. 15, 1795, 

 Augustus-George, brother to the present Earl of Dartmouth; 

 Charles, b. Sept. 1, 1730, who took the name of Chester, on the 

 death of Sir Charles Bagot-Chester, Bart. m. Catharine, daughter 

 of Heneage Legge, Esq. son of William Earl of Dartmouth, and 

 has twelve children; he d. April 2, 1792; Richard, b. Nov. 13, 

 1733, m. February 25, 1783, Frances, sister to the twelfth Earl of 

 Suffolk, and, by the King's permission, changed his name to 

 Howard; Lewis, D.D. Dean of Christ-Church, Oxford, and late 

 Bishop pf St. Asaph, b. January 1, 1740, and d. June 4, 1802, hav- 

 ing *K Mary, daughter of Edward Hay, brother to Thomas eighth 

 Earl Kinnoul, and his Lady d. August 17, 1799; Thomas, b. Feb. 

 14, 1746, and d. unm* The eight daughters were, Barbara, m. 

 Ralph Sneyd, Esq. of Keel, in Staffordshire ; Anne ; Frances, d. 

 an infant ; Jane ; Elizabeth ; Maria, m. Richard Wingfield, Esq. 

 Catharine ; and Harriet. Sir Walter was one of the trustees for exe- 



