Sir Thomas Alston, 5th Baronet

• "(117) Alston of Odell Castle, baronets", Landed families of Britain and Ireland Blog, Nick Kingsley

"Sir Thomas Alston sat as Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire from 1747 until 1761 and died in 1774. He was the last baronet as his son, also Thomas, was born out of wedlock to a Margaret Lee. Thomas junior inherited the Odell Castle Estate but not the baronetcy which then became extinct. When Thomas junior died in 1823 his son Justinian inherited the estate and his son Crewe succeeded him, dying in 1901 and passing the Odell Castle Estate on to his son Rowland Crewe Alston. On his death in 1933 the estate was sold to Lord Luke.Odell had been, effectively, the fiefdom of the Alston family for almost exactly three hundred years." Reference - http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecord...