Sir Humphrey Style, 1st Baronet

Sir Humphrey Style, 1st Baronet (–1659) of Beckenham, Kent was a courtier to kings James I and Charles I of England.

Biography Humphrey was the son of William Style of Langley, Beckenham, Kent (grandson of Sir Humphrey Style, Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII). He was a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to James I and cup-bearer to Charles I. He was a colonel of the trained bands of horse (cavalry) in Kent.

Sir Humphrey was knighted at Farnham by King James on 11 August 1622 and under that designation created a baronet of Ireland on 13 September 1624. Charles I created him a baronet of England on 20 May 1627.

Sir Humphrey died on 10 November 1659 in his 64th year and was buried at Beckenham. As he died without any surviving children, the baronetcy became extinct. After Humphrey's death Hester married John Scott of Hayes, Kent (c.1626–1670), a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber. Hester and John Scott appear to have occupied Langley, Beckenham until Hester's death in 1671 and she was buried as The Lady Styells at St. George's, Beckenham. In 1632 Humphrey's cousin Sir Thomas Style of Wateringbury was high sheriff of Kent and Humphrey wrote a letter to his then wife Elizabeth Bosvile describing preparations for a perambulation of Kent.