Christopher Pepper
16th-century English politician
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Christopher Pepper (1566/7 – 1635), of St Martins, Richmond, Yorkshire, was an English lawyer and politician.[1]
Family
He was the son and heir of John Pepper of St Martins and his wife Anne.[1] He married Margaret (d. 1619), daughter of John Smith of Easby, Richmondshire.[1] Their son William died in 1620, leaving a son John.[2] He was a cousin of Cuthbert Pepper.[3]
Career
He was probably the Christopher Peper who matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1583[4] He entered Gray's Inn from Barnard's Inn in November 1587[5] and was called to the bar in May 1593.[6] Thereafter he was active as a lawyer in Yorkshire[1] and in 1603 succeeded his cousin Cuthbert as recorder of Richmond.[7] He served town as Member (MP) in 1624, when Sir Talbot Bowes was mayor and so unable to sit.[1] He also served as a Justice of the peace for the North Riding of Yorkshire between 1616 and 1628.[1]
He died in March 1635 and was buried in St Mary's, Richmond.[8]