Sir Thomas Style, 4th Baronet (c. 1685–1769), was an English landowner and politician who sat in the

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for a short time in 1715. Style was the son of

Sir Thomas Style, 2nd Baronet Sir Thomas Style, 2nd Baronet (1624–1702) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1656 and 1659. Style was the son of Sir Thomas Style, 1st Baronet of Wateringbury, Kent and his wife Elizabeth Foulkes daughter of Rob ...

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and his second wife Margaret Twisden, daughter of

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.John Burke ''A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage, Volume 2''
/ref> He was educated at Enfield, Middlesex under Mr Uvedale, and was admitted at

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, aged 19 on 13 September 1704. He succeeded his half-brother Oliver in the

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on 12 February 1703. He married Elizabeth Hotham, daughter of

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. In 1707 he pulled down the ancient mansion of Wateringbury-Place, which had a moat around it and built a new mansion to the west of it. Style was

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in the year 1709 to 1710. At the 1715 general election he was returned as a Tory Member of Parliament for

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, but was unseated on petition within six months. He did not stand for parliament again. Style died on 11 January 1769. He and his wife had four sons and two daughters. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Style, Sir Thomas, 4th Baronet 1680s births 1769 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge British MPs 1715–1722 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of England High sheriffs of Kent People from Wateringbury