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, 1st Duke of Wellington, and other Bagot family connections made possible his subsequent diplomatic career.
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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, 1st Duke of Wellington, and other Bagot 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 to the Pacific Ocean. He subsequently served as British Ambassador to Russia where he took part in negotiations leading to the 1825 Treaty of Saint Petersburg 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. While serving as governor-general, Bagot ordered the first criminal extradition of a fugitive slave to the United States from Canada West. The fugitive in question, Nelson Hacket (or Hackett), had been valet and butler to a wealthy Arkansa slave owner. In 1841, Hacket stole a beaver overcoat and a racing mare from his master, as well as a gold watch and a saddle from two others, and fled to Canada West. Hacket's master caught up with him in Chatham, and he was jailed. Governor-General Bagot ruled Hacket had committed a crime by stealing items not necessary for his escape, and for this reason he was extradited. The public in Canada West, as well as abolitionists in the U.S. and Canada, were dismayed, and their displeasure led to a formal treaty, which codified rules for extradition, but upset fugitives, abolitionists, and slave owners. Having resigned his office in January 1843, Bagot died at Alwington House in Kingston, too ill to return to the United Kingdom. Today he is chiefly remembered for his contributions to the development of the "undefended border" between the United States and Canada. He was also Member of Parliament for Castle Rising from 1807 to 1808.
- Sir Charles Bagot, né le 23 septembre 1781, mort le 19 mai 1843 à Alwington, est un diplomate et un administrateur colonial anglais qui occupa le poste de gouverneur général de la province du Canada de 1841 à 1843. On doit à Bagot, alors qu’il était gouverneur général, d’avoir ordonné la première extradition criminelle du Canada-Ouest aux États-Unis de l’esclave fugitif, Nelson Hacket (ou Hackett), qui avait été le valet et maître d’hôtel d’un riche propriétaire d’esclaves d’Arkansa. Il avait pris la fuite pour le Canada-Ouest en 1841, après avoir volé un manteau de castor et une jument de course à son maître, ainsi qu’une montre en or et une selle à deux autres. Son maître l’ayant rattrapé à Chatham, il avait été emprisonné. Le gouverneur général procéda à l’extradition de Hacket en statuant qu’il avait commis un délit en volant des biens inutiles à son évasion. La consternation de la population du Canada-Ouest, ainsi que des abolitionnistes aux États-Unis et au Canada, fut telle que leur mécontentement conduisit à un traité formel codifiant les règles d’extradition, qui en retour émut considérablement les fugitifs, les abolitionnistes et les propriétaires d’esclaves.
- Charles Bagot – brytyjski dyplomata i administrator, gubernator generalny Brytyjskiej Kanady. Bagot, będąc przedstawicielem dyplomatycznym Wielkiej Brytanii w USA w latach 1815-1820, wynegocjował ze swym amerykańskim partnerem, sekretarzem stanu Richardem Rushem, porozumienie regulujące spory graniczne oraz limitujące obecność zbrojną na terenach przygranicznych. W 1841 został mianowany gubernatorem generalnym Prowincji Kanady. Do Kanady przybył z wyraźnymi instrukcjami, by nie dopuścić do utworzenia liberalnego rządu. Bagot jednakże, wbrew tym instrukcjom, pozwolił sformować większościowy, liberalny, reformatorski rząd Baldwina-La Fontaine'a.
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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, 1st Duke of Wellington, and other Bagot family connections made possible his subsequent diplomatic career.
- Sir Charles Bagot, né le 23 septembre 1781, mort le 19 mai 1843 à Alwington, est un diplomate et un administrateur colonial anglais qui occupa le poste de gouverneur général de la province du Canada de 1841 à 1843. On doit à Bagot, alors qu’il était gouverneur général, d’avoir ordonné la première extradition criminelle du Canada-Ouest aux États-Unis de l’esclave fugitif, Nelson Hacket (ou Hackett), qui avait été le valet et maître d’hôtel d’un riche propriétaire d’esclaves d’Arkansa.
- Charles Bagot – brytyjski dyplomata i administrator, gubernator generalny Brytyjskiej Kanady. Bagot, będąc przedstawicielem dyplomatycznym Wielkiej Brytanii w USA w latach 1815-1820, wynegocjował ze swym amerykańskim partnerem, sekretarzem stanu Richardem Rushem, porozumienie regulujące spory graniczne oraz limitujące obecność zbrojną na terenach przygranicznych. W 1841 został mianowany gubernatorem generalnym Prowincji Kanady.
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