Background
Thomas Alston was the eldest son of Sir Rowland Alston, 2nd Baronet of Odell, Bedfordshire and Temperance Crew. The family included Puritans on both sides.
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Thomas Thomas Alston
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He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career
Alston succeeded his father as Baronet in 1697. From 1698 to 1701 he was Member of Parliament for Bedford: it is unclear with which of the Parliamentary groupings his sympathies lay. "The story that he had wasted his estate and at the time of his death was a prisoner in the Fleet is not borne out by his will, in which the Odell estate and other property in Bedfordshire was left intact and charged with numerous bequests".
