An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter By Sir Thomas Style, 4th Baronet in Relation to the Suicide of Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarborough. Dated 1740. Autograph Letter Signed referring to the controversial suicide of Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarborough; ‘Lrd. Scarborough shot himself you have heard long since. The ball was found in his brain. I hear no reason alleged for this, tis true he was to have married the Duchess of Manchester in a few days but I believe he had no more an aversion to a pretty girl than yr Lordship yr self has’), Sir Thomas Style, 4th Baronet 1685-1769, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons for a short time in 1715. Lord Scarbrough committed suicide by shooting himself through the roof of the mouth on 29 January 1740, aged 53. At the time of his death it was rumored to have been brought on by a mental disorder he developed from a knock on the head when he had an accident in his carriage a few days before. There was also a rumour that he had killed himself because of a betrayal of trust. The rumour ran that he had confided a secret of State to the dowager Duchess of Manchester whom he had been about to marry, and that she had then told this secret to others. When word got back to the king of the source of the leak of the secret, Scarborough killed himself. Size 225mm x 190mm. Condition is good. Age toned.