Christopher Walters Stockdale

Christopher Walters Stockdale (1665–1713) was an English politician and landowner in Yorkshire who served as Member of Parliament for Knaresborough from 1693 until his death in 1713.[1]

Christopher Stockdale
Born
Christopher Walters
Known forParliamentarian and Landowner
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Stockdale (née Liddell)

Life

He was born Christopher Walters in 1665, the second son of Robert Walters of Cundall Manor (now an independent boarding school).[2] His uncle was William Stockdale, a distinguished Whig parliamentarian who had held his Knaresborough seat for 33 years without interruption.[2] As a condition of inheriting his uncle's substantial estate and political interests he changed his surname to Stockdale by royal license in 1693.[3] This estate included Bilton Hall near Harrogate. In the same year he was elected as Member of Parliament for Knaresborough.[1]

Christopher Stockdale married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Liddell, 2nd Baronet of Ravensworth Castle.[4] They had one son named William Stockdale.[5]

References
  1. "STOCKDALE (formerly WALTERS), Christopher (c.1665-1713), of Bilton Park, nr. Knaresborough, Yorks. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  2. Cruickshanks, Eveline (2002). The House of Commons 1690-1715, 5 Volume Set (The History of Parliament). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521772214.
  3. Dugdale, William; Clay, John William (1899). Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions. David O. McKay Library Brigham Young University-Idaho. Exeter : W. Pollard & Co. pp. 277–278.
  4. Debrett, John (2010). Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Nabu Press.
  5. Hargrove, Ely, 1742-1818. (1798). The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, and its medicinal waters. Including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood: the curious remains of antiquity; elegant buildings; ornamented grounds; & other singular productions of nature and art ... Printed by Wilson, Spence, and Mawman. OCLC 54174668.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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