Josceline Bagot

Josceline Fitzroy Bagot (22 October 1854 – 1 March 1913) was an English British Army officer and Conservative politician.

He joined the Army and received a commission in the Grenadier Guards in 1875[1] and was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of Canada in 1881–1882 and 1888–1889.

[3] He was twice returned as Conservative MP for Kendal (1892–1906 and 1910–1913),[4] and served as a Parliamentary Secretary at both the Treasury and the Home Office.

She also received the Order of the Royal Cross and the South African medal for her service during the Boer War.

[7] They lived at Levens Hall, near Kendal which Bagot had inherited from a distant relative, Mary Howard[8]

Side profile black and white portrait of Mrs. Theodosia Bagot.
Theodosia Bagot. From a photograph by Mendelssohn, London. [ 6 ]