page_title: Sir Thomas Stepney, 5th Baronet
hierarchical_section_title: Sir Thomas Stepney, 5th Baronet
caption_attribution_description: English: NO.2 (LLANELLY HOUSE) VAUGHAN STREET Wikidata has entry Q17735645 with data related to this building. This is a photo of listed building number 11892.
context_page_description: Sir Thomas Stepney, 5th Baronet was a Welsh landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1717 to 1722.
  Stepney was the only son of Sir John Stepney, 4th Baronet of Prendergast, Pembrokeshire and his wife Justina Van Dyck, daughter of Sir Anthony Van Dyck the artist. He succeeded to baronetcy on the death of his father in 1681. In 1691, he married Margaret Vaughan, daughter of John Vaughan of Llanelly. She was co-heiress of a branch of the Vaughan family of Golden Grove, who had been MPs for Carmarthenshire during the seventeenth century. He was High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire in the year 1696 to 1697. In 1714 he decided to build Llanelly House a town house in Llanelli.
  Stepney was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire at a by-election on 23 May 1717. He did not stand again at the 1722 general election or subsequently.
  Stepney died at the beginning of 1745 and was buried at Llanelli on 19 January 1745, aged 76. He left a son, John, who succeeded him in the baronetcy and two daughters.
  Llanelly House passed out of the family in time, but in 2011 work was begun to restore the building which is now open to the public.
context_section_description: Sir Thomas Stepney, 5th Baronet (c.1668 –1749) was a Welsh landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1717 to 1722.
  Stepney was the only son of Sir John Stepney, 4th Baronet  of Prendergast, Pembrokeshire and his wife Justina Van Dyck, daughter of Sir Anthony Van Dyck the artist. He succeeded to baronetcy on the death of his father in 1681. In 1691, he married Margaret Vaughan, daughter of John Vaughan of Llanelly. She was co-heiress of a branch of the Vaughan family of Golden Grove, who had been MPs for  Carmarthenshire during the seventeenth century. He was High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire in the year 1696 to 1697.  In 1714 he decided to build Llanelly House a town house in Llanelli .
  Stepney was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire at a by-election on 23 May 1717. He did not stand again at the 1722 general election or subsequently.
  Stepney died at the beginning of 1745 and was buried at Llanelli on 19 January 1745, aged 76. He left a son, John, who succeeded him in the baronetcy and two daughters.
  Llanelly House passed out of the family in time, but in 2011 work was begun to restore the building which is now open to the public.
caption: Llanelly House
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