Richard Bagot (bishop)

Bagot was educated at Rugby School[2] and Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1799, B.A.

by diploma 1829[3]), and in 1804 was elected to a fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, which he resigned two years later upon his marriage.

[2] Bagot was Rector of Leigh and Blithfield and Prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral.

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.

Richard Bagot, wearing regalia as Chancellor of the Order of the Garter
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) [ 1 ] circumscribed by the Garter. Tiles created by A.W.N Pugin