John Bagot J.P. (10 January 1849 – 29 August 1910) was a businessman and politician in the colony of South Australia.
Bagot was born the second son of Christopher Michael Bagot (1817 – 8 November 1853) and Margaret Elizabeth Bagot, née Watts (c. 1823 – 6 November 1910) at his father's property "Koonunga", near Kapunda, South Australia. His mother was a daughter of Capt. John Watts (of the 73rd Regiment), who was at one time Adelaide's Postmaster-General. His grandfather, who selected the property, was Capt. Charles Hervey Bagot, of the 59th Regiment, who arrived in South Australia on the Birman in December 1840. It was on this same property that copper was discovered by Captain Bagot's youngest son Charles Samuel Bagot, which incorporated with the F. S. Dutton's adjoining property "Anlaby", became Australia's first copper mine.
Bagot was educated at St. Peter's College, then for several years worked for the National Bank of Australasia. In the 1870s he and his brother C. M. Bagot (1852–1899) took up the Peake cattle run, between Warrina and Lake Eyre, which they continued to run until around 1900. He also owned the "Springbank" property near Burra for a few years. For a long period he was a director of Bagot, Shakes, & Lewis, Limited, Broken Hill Pty., the National Bank, the South Australian Brewing Company, the Alliance Assurance Company, and the South Australian Mining Association.[1]
He represented the seat of Victoria in the South Australian House of Assembly from April 1884 to April 1887.[2]
He married Lucy Josephine Ayers (c. 1857 – 11 May 1945), a daughter of Sir Henry Ayers, on 24 September 1878. Walter Hervey Bagot (17 March 1880 – 27 February 1889), a noted architect, and founding partner in Woods and Bagot was the only child to survive to adulthood. They lived at Buxton Street, North Adelaide, later Park Terrace, Fitzroy until 1901, then "Forest Lodge", 19 Pine Street, Stirling, where John established a fine garden. His library included a valuable collection of Australiana. For several years prior to his death Mr. Bagot was an invalid, and was obliged to retire altogether from public life, living on Pennington Terrace, North Adelaide, where he died.
His widow endowed a prize for botany at the University of Adelaide in his name from 1912.[3]
Charles Hervey Bagot "Captain Bagot" (c. 17 April 1788 – 29 July 1880) married Mary MacCarthy (– 17 January 1860) around 1815. They emigrated on the Birman, arriving in South Australia in December 1840. He was a member of the Legislative Council for a number of terms between 1844 and 1869. Among their descendants were: