1. Charles Bagot served as ambassador to the United States, Russia, and the Netherlands.
16 Facts About Charles Bagot
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Charles Bagot served as the second Governor General of the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1843.
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Charles Bagot was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford.
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Charles Bagot entered Lincoln's Inn, where he studied law, but left and returned to Oxford to complete his master's degree.
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Charles Bagot served as Member of Parliament for Castle Rising from 1807 to 1808, alongside Richard Sharp.
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Charles Bagot was named minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinaire to the United States on 31 July 1815, in the aftermath of the War of 1812.
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Charles Bagot 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 to the Pacific Ocean.
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Charles Bagot subsequently served as British Ambassador to Russia, where he took part in negotiations leading to the 1825 Treaty of Saint Petersburg.
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Charles Bagot was chosen because of his diplomatic knowledge of the United States.
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Charles Bagot was appointed 27 September 1841, and arrived in the Canadian capital Kingston on 10 January 1842, taking office two days later.
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Charles Bagot was ordered by the British government to resist the strengthening demands for responsible government.
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Charles Bagot's leadership was an important step forward in establishing more amicable relations between the colonizing British and French.
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Charles Bagot worked productively with Baldwin and Lafontaine to establish a structure for fair municipal governance in the province of Canada.
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Governor-General Charles Bagot ruled Hacket had committed a crime by stealing items not necessary for his escape, and for this reason he was extradited.
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In 1842 Bagot initiated a major review of government policies and expenditures related to Indigenous peoples in Canada East and Canada West, appointing Rawson W Rawson, John Davidson and William Hepburn as report commissioners.
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Charles Bagot married Lady Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesley, daughter of William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington on 22 July 1806.