Josiah Howell Bagster (19 February 1847 – 17 October 1893) was a land agent and politician in the British colony of South Australia.
[1] His father was born on 10 July 1811 and baptised on 8 January 1812, at Partridge Lane Independent Church, Faversham, Kent, England.
He married Elizabeth Howell at St James Church, Westminster, London in the second quarter of 1841, but had arrived in Ledbury before the 1841 census conducted on 6 June 1841.
He attended Webster's Commercial School in Grenfell Street, Adelaide, and was apprenticed to the Government Printing Office.
He made and lost a fortune and was financially saved by a lucky draw in a Melbourne Cup sweep.