John Philip Bagwell

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John Philip Bagwell DL (11 August 1874 – 22 August 1946) was an Irish businessman and politician. He was the son of Richard Bagwell and Harriette Philippa Jocelyn Newton.[1] The Bagwells of Marlfield could trace their arrival in Ireland to John Bagwell (Backwell), a Captain in Cromwell's New Model Army.[2]

Business

Bagwell was general manager of Ireland's Great Northern Railways (GNR) between 1911 and 1926.[1]

Politics

Bagwell became an independent member of Seanad Éireann in the Irish Free State in 1922, and held that office until 1936.[3] During the Irish Civil War he was kidnapped and held hostage by Republicans in the Dublin Mountains. The Free State government responded by issuing a proclamation to the effect that if he was not safely released, reprisals would be taken.[4][5] He maintained that he escaped his captors through his own efforts and his safe release could not be attributed to these threats.[6] At about this time the family residence of Marlfield House, Clonmel, County Tipperary was burned by Anti-treaty forces and the library of rare historical documents destroyed.[7]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 thePeerage.com
  2. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, p45.
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  4. Dáil Éireann - January, 1923 - PROCLAMATION RE KIDNAPPING.
  5. New York Times - February 1, 1923
  6. Seanad Éireann - Volume 7 - 16 June, 1926
  7. M. Bence-Jones, A Guide to Irish Country Houses, London, 1988