One member of the family, Hervey Bagot, represented Staffordshire in Parliament and fought as a Royalist in the Civil War.

The latter's son, the fifth Baronet, sat as a Member of Parliament for Staffordshire as well as for Newcastle-under-Lyme and Oxford University.

His grandson, the third Baron, sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Denbighshire and after entering the House of Lords served as a government whip under the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli.

A junior branch of the Bagot family had their seat at Pype Hayes Hall, Warwickshire.

This can be translated as: a white shield with black ermine spots, over the top two thin blue chevrons.

[4] The heir presumptive is the present holder's third cousin, Julian William D'Arcy Bagot (born 1943).