STYLE, Sir Thomas, 4th Bt. (?1685-1769), of Wateringbury, Kent.

Family and Education

b. ?1685, s. of Sir Thomas Style, 2nd Bt., M.P., by his 2nd w. Margaret, da. of Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Bt., M.P. educ. Enfield, Mdx.; Trinity, Camb. 13 Sept. 1704, aged 19. m. Elizabeth, da. of Sir Charles Hotham, 4th Bt., 4s. 2da. suc. half-bro. as 4th Bt. 12 Feb. 1703.

Offices Held

Sheriff, Kent 1709–10.

Address

Main residence: Wateringbury, Kent.

biography text

Style was descended from Sir John Style, a London alderman, who bought the estate of Langley, in Beckenham, at the end of the fifteenth century. About the beginning of the seventeenth century his great-grandfather bought Wateringbury, which Style rebuilt.1Hasted, Kent, v. 112. Returned as a Tory in 1715, he was unseated on petition and did not stand again. He died 11 Jan. 1769.

Author

R.R.S.

Volume

Commons 1715-1754

Notes

1. Hasted, Kent, v. 112.