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Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Major J. Fitzroy Bagot, M.P. West. & Cum. Yeo.) good very fine, rare to unit £250-300

Josceline Fitzroy Bagot was born on 22 October 1854. Educated at Eton, he entered the 96th Regiment in 1873 and Grenadier Guards in 1875. He retired as a Captain in 1886, having been A.D.C. to the Governor-General of Canada, 1882-83. Captain of the Westmoreland & Cumberland Yeomanry Cavalry in May 1888, promoted to Major in October 1901 and retired from the Army as a Lieutenant-Colonel in May 1902. Conservative M.P. for South Westmoreland, 1892-1906, serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1897 and to the Home Secretary during 1898-99. Served in the Boer War, landing in Cape Town in December 1899 as Honorary Secretary of the Portland Hospital. He was then appointed Chief Censor, Cape Town, February-July 1900. On 25 July 1900 appointed Acting Adjutant General and sailed for England with mail for Lord Roberts. Was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 4 September 1901). Bagot was Unionist M.P. for the Kendall Division of Westmoreland from 1910 until his death. He was created 1st Baronet in 1913 but died on 1 March 1913 before the passing under the Great Seal of the Patent of Baronetage. With copied research.