Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet

Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot, 5th Baronet (3 August 1702 – 20 January 1768) of Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1724 and 1768.

He made his only recorded speech on 26 February 1735, when he moved unsuccessfully for a clause to be included in the mutiny bill which would allow newly enlisted soldiers to obtain their immediate discharge if they wanted.

In 1737 he became Trustee of the Radcliffe Library at Oxford and was granted a DCL He became founding governor of the Foundling Hospital in 1739.

[3] At the 1754 British general election Bagot withdrew from Parliament in favour of his son, William who was returned at Staffordshire.

On 30 November 1762 Bagot reluctantly agreed to stand at the Oxford University by-election at the urging of Thomas Jenner, president of Magdalen.