Humphrey Style

Sir Humphrey Style (died 1557) of Langley Park, Beckenham Kent was an Esquire of the Body of Henry VIII of England and a sheriff of Kent.

Biography

Style was the son of John Stile (died 1500), alderman of London, and Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir Guy Wolston of London.

Style, was one of the Esquires of the Body to Henry VIII, and Sheriff of Kent in 1543.

Style procured a grant from Sir Thomas Wriothesley, garter principal king at arms, reciting, that not being willing to bear arms in prejudice to the other branches of his family, he had petitioned for a coat, with a proper difference, which the said king at arms, in 1529, granted, under his hand and seal: Sable, a fess engrailed between threefears de Us, within a bordure or, the fess fretted of the field. He also procured, with others, an act of parliament in 1549 (the 3rd years of reign Edward VI) for the disgavelling of his lands in the county of Kent. He died in 1557, and was buried in Beckenham church.

Family

With his first wife, Bridget, daughter of Sir Thomas Baldrey, Style had three sons:

• Edmund (born 1583), was born at Langley. His son William Style was the father of Sir Humphrey Style, 1st Baronet and his half brother William Style a barrister and noted court reporter.
• Oliver, who was Sheriff of London, and ancestor of the Styles, of the baronetcy of Watringbury.
• Nicholas, who was knighted.