Cornelius Bagot

The son of C. Bagot, Esq of Blackpool, yeoman, who for over forty years held the honorary office of Overseer of that town, Cornelius Bagot was born at Blackpool, 15 February, 1838 and was educated at the Marton Grammar School, under  the Rev. Joseph Bryers, M.A., and Rogers’ School, Blackpool;  He served a full  apprenticeship to William Stones, of Blackburn, and  afterwards had over thirty years’ experience in Manchester with  Peter Bradshaw Alley, architect and surveyor, John  Lowe, FRIBA, and with  William Dawes, architect  surveyor, and others. He commenced practice in Manchester in I886, and was engaged upon numerous schools, churches, parsonages, private residences, and important public buildings and engineering works.  He joined the Society of Architects in 1901. By 1903 he had been joined by his son, Henry Nickson Bagot, quantity surveyor.

Address
1900    Ogden’s Chambers, 134, Deansgate, Manchester
1903    Cornelius Bagot and Son, building and quantity surveyors, 134 Deansgate, Manchester

Residence
1900    85, Cromwell Road, Patricroft. Eccles

Reference: Tracy and Pike