Mark Baggot (died 1718) was an Irish Jacobite politician and soldier.
On 28 January 1684, Baggot was one of the founding members of the Dublin Philosophical Society.[1] In 1689, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Carlow in the short-lived Patriot Parliament summoned by James II of England.[2] James II also appointed Baggot as High Sheriff of Carlow. During the Williamite War in Ireland, he served as a captain in Colonel John Grace's Regiment of Infantry.[3]
He appears to not have been targeted in the Williamite reprisals of the 1690s, possibly owing to his membership of the Dublin Philosophical Society and friendship with Bishop William King.[4] However, on 16 April 1701, a group of Protestant gentry from County Meath submitted a petition to the Dublin Castle administration requesting that Baggot be deprived of his estates, describing Baggot as a "violent papist". His estates were subsequently seized and granted to Philip Savage in 1702.
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- ^ McGrath, C. Ivar (October 2009). "Tollet, George". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
- ^ O'Hart, John, The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689, Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation (5th Ed., 1892), Volume 2. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- ^ BAGOT (BAGGOTT), Mark. Officers of the Jacobite Armies, Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- ^ Hoppen, K. Theodore (September 1964). "The Dublin Philosophical Society and the New Learning in Ireland". Irish Historical Studies. 14 (54): 103. Retrieved 23 February 2023.