Background
Style was the eldest son of William Style of Langley, Beckenham, Kent (grandson of Sir Humphrey Style, Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII), by his second wife, Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Clarke, was born in 1603.
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William Style
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He attended Queen"s and Brasenose colleges, Oxford.
Career
He was a barrister at Inner Temple in 1628. He compiled Regestum Practicale 1657, and other works. He matriculated at Oxford, from Queen"s College, on 12 June 1618, and resided for a time at Brasenose College, but left the university without a degree.
Style was admitted in November 1618 a student at the Inner Temple, where he was called to the bar in 1628.
After the death without issue (1659) of his half-brother, Sir Humphrey Style, 1st Baronet, he resided on the ancestral estate of Langley. He died on 7 December 1679, and was buried in Langley church.
Style married Elizabeth, daughter of William Duleing of Rochester. They had two sons:
Humphrey, who died without male issue.
