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Sir Charles Bagot GCB (
23 September 1781 –
19 May 1843) was an English diplomat and colonial administrator who served as
Governor General of the
Province of Canada 1841-
1843).
He was the second son of
William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot of
Blithfield Hall,
Staffordshire.
His marriage to Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesley-Pole, the niece of
Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, and other family connections made possible his subsequent diplomatic career.
He was named minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinaire to the United States
31 July 1815 in the aftermath of the
War of 1812. With
Richard Rush he negotiated the
Rush-Bagot Agreement 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.
He subsequently served as British Ambassador to
Russia where he took part in negotiations leading to the
Anglo-Russian Treaty of 1825 and as British Ambassador to the
Netherlands where he was involved in negotiations leading to the establishment of
Belgium in 1831.
After a hiatus of 10 years, Bagot agreed to succeed
Lord Sydenham as governor-general of the newly proclaimed
Province of Canada. He was chosen because of his diplomatic knowledge of the United States. Bagot was appointed
27 September 1841 and arrived in the Canadian capital
Kingston on
10 January 1842, taking office two days later. Bagot was ordered by the
British government to resist the demand for
responsible government. Bagot did allow
Robert Baldwin and Sir
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine to form a ministry on the basis of their
parliamentary
majority.
Having resigned his office in January 1843, Sir Charles Bagot died at Alwington House in Kingston, too ill to return to the
United Kingdom. Today he's chiefly remembered for his contributions to the development of the "undefended border" between the United States and Canada.
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