Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Baggallay, Richard
BAGGALLAY, The Right Hon. Sir Richard, eldest son of the late Mr. Richard Baggallay, of Kingthorpe House, Upper Tooting, was born at Stockwell, Surrey, May 13, 1816, and educated at Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1839 as 14th wrangler, proceeded M.A. in 1842, and gained the Franklin Fellowship at his college. In 1841 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. Having acquired an extensive practice at the Equity bar, he was in 1861 appointed one of Her Majesty's Counsel. For several years he was counsel to the University of Cambridge (1869–75). He also became a bencher of his Inn, and a magistrate for the county of Surrey. At the general election in July, 1865, he was returned to the House of Commons in the Conservative interest, though he declared himself to be in favour of extending the franchise to those whose position and intelligence afforded a sufficient guarantee for its proper exercise. He held for a short time the post of Solicitor-General in the administration of Mr. Disraeli, viz., from Sept. to Dec. 1868, when he received the honour of knighthood. Sir Richard was an unsuccessful candidate for the representation of Hereford at the general election of Dec. 1868, and he remained out of Parliament till Oct. 1870, when he was chosen member for Mid-Surrey. At the general election of Feb. 1874 he was again returned by the same constituency, and two months later he succeeded Sir John Karslake as Attorney-General in Mr. Disraeli's administration. On the Judicature Act coming into operation in Nov. 1875, he was appointed a Judge of the Court of Appeal and a member of the Privy Council.