Charles Bagot

1781 - 1843  (61 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 60 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Charles Bagot
  Birth	23 Sep 1781
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 May 1843
  Siblings	2 Siblings
  + 1. Charles Bagot,   b. 23 Sep 1781   d. 19 May 1843  (Age 61 years) ▻ Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesley,  m. 22 Jul 1806 + 2. Bishop Richard Bagot,   b. 22 Nov 1782   d. 15 May 1854  (Age 71 years) ▻ Harriet Villiers,  m. 22 Dec 1806 + 3. Baron William Bagot,   b. 11 Sep 1773, Staffordshire, England d. 12 Feb 1856  (Age 82 years) ▻ Emily FitzRoy,  m. 30 May 1799 ;   Louisa Legge,  m. 17 Feb 1807
  Person ID	I571544	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	8 Sep 2010

  
  

  Father	Baron William Bagot,   b. 28 Feb 1728   d. 22 Oct 1798 (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Louisa St. John,   b. Abt 1744   d. 4 Feb 1820, Blithfield, Rugeley, Staffordshire, England (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	20 Aug 1760
  Family ID	F244687	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesley,   b. 5 Feb 1785   d. 2 Feb 1845 (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	22 Jul 1806
  Children	+ 1. Colonel Charles Bagot,   b. 20 May 1808   d. 25 Feb 1881 (Age 72 years) + 2. Henrietta Bagot,   b. Sep 1815   d. 22 Mar 1844 (Age 28 years)
  Family ID	F244686	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Nov 2007

  
  

• Notes

  an English diplomat and colonial administrator who served as Governor General of the Province of Canada 1841-1843). He was the second son of William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot of Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire. His marriage to Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesley-Pole, the niece of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and other Bagot family connections made possible his subsequent diplomatic career. He was named minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinaire to the United States 31 July 1815 in the aftermath of the War of 1812. With Richard Rush he negotiated the Rush-Bagot Agreement to limit naval forces on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. He also contributed to negotiations leading to the Anglo-American Convention of 1818 which defined the border between British North America and the United States from Lake of the Woods (see Northwest Angle) to the Pacific Ocean. He subsequently served as British Ambassador to Russia where he took part in negotiations leading to the 1825 Treaty of Saint Petersburg and as British Ambassador to the Netherlands where he was involved in negotiations leading to the establishment of Belgium in 1831. After a hiatus of 10 years, Bagot agreed to succeed Lord Sydenham as governor-general of the newly proclaimed Province of Canada. He was chosen because of his diplomatic knowledge of the United States. Bagot was appointed 27 September 1841 and arrived in the Canadian capital Kingston on 10 January 1842, taking office two days later. Bagot was ordered by the British government to resist the demand for responsible government. Bagot did allow Robert Baldwin and Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine to form a ministry on the basis of their parliamentary majority. Having resigned his office in January 1843, Sir Charles Bagot died at Alwington House in Kingston, too ill to return to the United Kingdom. Today he is chiefly remembered for his contributions to the development of the "undefended border" between the United States and Canada. He was also Member of Parliament (MP) for Castle Rising from 1807 to 1808