Charles Bagot
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Sir Charles Bagot GCB MA |
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| Governor General of the Province of Canada | |
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In office 1842–1843 |
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| Monarch | Queen Victoria |
| Preceded by | Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham |
| Succeeded by | Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe |
| Lieutenant Governor of Canada West | |
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In office 1842–1843 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Preceded by | Sir Richard Downes Jackson |
| Succeeded by | Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe |
| Lieutenant Governor of Canada East | |
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In office 1842–1843 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Preceded by | Sir Richard Downes Jackson |
| Succeeded by | Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe |
| Personal details | |
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23 September 1781 Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire, England |
| Died | 19 May 1843 (aged 61) Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesley |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
| Occupation | politician, administrator, diplomat |
Sir Charles Bagot GCB (23 September 1781 – 19 May 1843) was a British politician, diplomat and colonial administrator. He served as ambassador to the United States, Russia, and the Netherlands. He served as the first Governor General of the Province of Canada from 1841-1843.
He was the second son of William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot of Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire. He was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered Lincoln’s Inn, where he studied law, but left and returned to Oxford to complete his master's degree.
His marriage to the wealthy Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesley-Pole, the niece of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and other Bagot family connections made possible his subsequent diplomatic career.
Bagot served as Member of Parliament for Castle Rising from 1807 to 1808.
He was named minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinaire to the United States on 31 July 1815, in the aftermath of the War of 1812. With Richard Rush, he negotiated the Rush–Bagot Treaty to limit naval forces on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. He also contributed to negotiations leading to the Anglo-American Convention of 1818, which defined the border between British North America and the United States from Lake of the Woods (see Northwest Angle) to the Pacific Ocean. Bagot ended his term in Washington, D.C. in 1820.
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