Richard Bagwell

His son John Philip Bagwell followed the family tradition in politics becoming a Senator in the government of the Irish Free State in 1923.

Bagwell was educated at Harrow and Oxford in England and called to the Bar, being admitted to Inner Temple in 1866.

[1] Bagwell was a Commissioner on National Education between 1905 and 1918 and a member of the Patriotic Union (Southern Unionists).

The couple had one son, John Philip Bagwell, and three daughters, Emily Georgiana, Margaret and Lilla Minnie.

Among many others he wrote: Bagwell contributed one signed article: Dudley Edwards, Ruth W.; O'Dowd, Mary (2003), Sources for Modern Irish History 1534-1641, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-27141-7

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