Colonel Charles Bagot
(1808-1881)

Volume 1, page 56, sitting number 428.

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Charles Bagot was born 20 May 1808. He became a Captain in the Grenadier Guards in 1840, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 3rd Staffordshire Militia in 1853, and a Colonel on 27 March 1858 until his death. He was Assistant Master of Ceremonies in the Royal household from 1861 until his death on 20 February 1881.

His obituary appeared in The Times on 21 February 1881: 'We regret to announce the death of Colonel Charles Bagot, Assistant Master of the Ceremonies in Ordinary to Her Majesty, who died at an early hour yesterday morning at 49, Cadogan Place, after an illness of several months. The late Colonel was the eldest son of the late Right Hon. Sir Charles Bagot, G.C.B., by his wife, Mary Charlotte Anne, eldest daughter of William, fourth Earl of Morning, and niece of the late Duke of Wellington, and was born on 20th of May, 1808. He was formerly in the Grenadier Guards but retired from service in November, 1851. He was Hon. Colonel of the 3rd King's Own Staffordshire Rifle Militia. He married on the 7th of July, 1846, Sophia Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Josceline Percy, C.B., by whom he had issue three sons and a daughter. He had held the Court appointment of Assistant Master of the Ceremonies to the Queen upwards of 20 years.'