After Wythens' death on 9 May 1704, Culpeper married his widow on 23 August 1704, but it was reported that he never lived with her as a husband.
At the 1705 English general election he was returned as a Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone, Kent.
He was returned as a Whig again at the 1708 British general election and he voted for the naturalization of the Palatines in 1709 and the for the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell in 1710.
[1] His estates passed to his sister Alicia's son, Sir Thomas Taylor, 3rd Baronet.
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