# Christopher Atkinson Saville > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Christopher_Atkinson_Saville > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Christopher_Atkinson_Saville.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Atkinson_Saville > Source revision: 1339754914 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|English merchant and politician}} {{For|the Quaker missionary and member of the Valiant Sixty|Christopher Atkinson (missionary)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Use British English|date=November 2016}} '''Christopher Atkinson''' (''c.'' 1738 – 23 April 1819),{{rayment-hc|h|2|date=June 2014}} from about 1798 known as '''Christopher Atkinson Savile''' or '''Saville''', was an English merchant and politician. Born in [Yorkshire](/source/Yorkshire), Atkinson moved to London and married the niece of a corn merchant, entering that trade himself at the [London Corn Exchange](/source/Corn_Exchange%2C_London). At the [1780 general election](/source/1780_British_general_election) Atkinson was elected as one of the two [Members of Parliament](/source/Members_of_Parliament) for [Hedon](/source/Hedon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)), but he was expelled from the [House of Commons](/source/House_of_Commons_of_Great_Britain) on 4 December 1783, after being convicted of [perjury](/source/perjury) in his dealings with the [Navy Victualling Board](/source/Victualling_Commissioners), and was sentenced to stand in the [pillory](/source/pillory). thumb|right|Christopher Atkinson pilloried as part of his sentence for cheating on the Navy Victualling Board, embellished with sheafs of corn amidst a huge crowd outside the corn exchange Atkinson was granted a [royal pardon](/source/royal_pardon) in 1791, and was again returned to Parliament for Hedon in [1796](/source/1796_British_general_election), holding the seat until he stood down at the [1806 general election](/source/1806_United_Kingdom_general_election). He changed his name to Saville some time after 1798. He then bought extensive properties in [Okehampton](/source/Okehampton) in Devon, which gave him control of both parliamentary seats of the [pocket borough](/source/pocket_borough) of [Okehampton](/source/Okehampton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)), and at the [election of 1807](/source/1807_United_Kingdom_general_election) he returned his son [Albany Savile](/source/Albany_Savile) (1783-1831). He returned himself for Okehampton at the [1818 election](/source/1818_United_Kingdom_general_election), holding the seat until his death in April 1819, aged over eighty.{{rayment-hc|o|date=June 2014}} == Marriages and children == Atkinson’s first wife was Jane Constable, a daughter of John Constable and the aunt of the painter [John Constable](/source/John_Constable). His second wife was Jane Savile, a daughter of John Savile (1712-1778). Their only son, Albany Savile, was the grandfather of [Sir Leopold Halliday Savile](/source/Leopold_Halliday_Savile). Albany was one of the members of parliament for the family’s borough of Okehampton between 1807 and 1820, briefly serving alongside his father as the borough’s other member. Savile had an illegitimate son, [Robert Farrand](/source/Robert_Farrand), who was one of the Members for Hedon in 1818–1820 and later a Member for Stafford in 1837. == Relationship with John Constable == In his diary, [Joseph Farington](/source/Joseph_Farington) describes a dinner with John Constable in 1811 at which Savile was discussed: {{Quote|John Constable spoke of Christopher Atkinson the Corn Merchant who formerly stood in the Pillory & gave him a very bad character as being a man whose sole object in this world is gain, and for it He wd. sacrifice every principle. Since the period of his standing in the Pillory for perjury, He has had a Cause depending in one of the Courts of Law, in which Mr. Dallas who was his Council and defended him upon the former occasion, in this held him up to public reprobation. He is however, said Constable, so hardened that reproach and shame have no effect upon him. Constable said, I am in a degree of relationship to him, he having married a relation of my Father. He is a native of Yorkshire, & came up to London to get bread as he could. He got into the House of a Corn Merchant Abraham Constable, a relation of our family, and by degrees obtained the whole business for Himself.James Greig, ed.''The Farington Diary'', vol. VII (1811–1814), p. 26}} == References == {{Reflist | refs = {{cite web | first1 = P. A. | last1 = Symonds | first2 = David R. | last2 = Fisher | title = ATKINSON (afterwards SAVILLE), Christopher (?1739-1819), of 3 Park Street, Westminster, Mdx. and Hill Hall, Hales, Norf | url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/atkinson-christopher-1739-1819 | work = The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 | editor = R. Thorne | publisher = Boydell and Brewer | accessdate = 18 June 2014 | year = 1986 }} }} {{s-start}} {{s-par|gb}} {{s-bef | before = [Beilby Thompson](/source/Beilby_Thompson) | before2 = [Lewis Watson](/source/Lewis_Watson%2C_2nd_Baron_Sondes) }} {{s-title | title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) for [Hedon](/source/Hedon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years = [1780](/source/1780_British_general_election)–1783 | with = [William Chaytor](/source/William_Chaytor_(MP)) }} {{s-aft | after = [William Chaytor](/source/William_Chaytor_(MP)) | after2 = [Stephen Lushington](/source/Sir_Stephen_Lushington%2C_1st_Baronet) }} {{s-bef | before = [Lionel Darell](/source/Sir_Lionel_Darell%2C_1st_Baronet) | before2 = [Beilby Thompson](/source/Beilby_Thompson) }} {{s-title | title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) for [Hedon](/source/Hedon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years = [1796](/source/1796_British_general_election)–[1800](/source/1801_United_Kingdom_general_election) | with = [Lionel Darell](/source/Sir_Lionel_Darell%2C_1st_Baronet) }} {{s-aft | after = Parliament of the United Kingdom }} {{s-par|uk}} {{s-bef | before = Parliament of Great Britain }} {{s-title | title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) for [Hedon](/source/Hedon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years = [1801](/source/1801_United_Kingdom_general_election)–[1806](/source/1806_United_Kingdom_general_election) | with = [Lionel Darell](/source/Sir_Lionel_Darell%2C_1st_Baronet) to 1802 | with2 = [George Johnstone](/source/George_Johnstone_(1764%E2%80%931813)) from 1802 }} {{s-aft | after = [George Johnstone](/source/George_Johnstone_(1764%E2%80%931813)) | after2 = [Anthony Browne](/source/Anthony_Browne_(1769%E2%80%931840)) }} {{s-bef | before = [Albany Savile](/source/Albany_Savile) | before2 = [The Lord Graves](/source/Thomas_Graves%2C_2nd_Baron_Graves) }} {{s-title | title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) for [Okehampton](/source/Okehampton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years = [1818](/source/1818_United_Kingdom_general_election)–1819 | with = [Albany Savile](/source/Albany_Savile) }} {{s-aft | after = [Albany Savile](/source/Albany_Savile) | after2 = [The Lord Dunalley](/source/Henry_Prittie%2C_2nd_Baron_Dunalley) }} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Atkinson, Christopher}} Category:Year of birth uncertain Category:1730s births Category:1819 deaths Category:18th-century English businesspeople Category:19th-century English landowners Category:Businesspeople from Yorkshire Category:19th-century English merchants Category:Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Hedon Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Hedon Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Okehampton Category:British MPs 1780–1784 Category:British MPs 1796–1800 Category:UK MPs 1801–1802 Category:UK MPs 1802–1806 Category:UK MPs 1818–1820 Category:English people convicted of perjury Category:Recipients of British royal pardons Category:Expelled members of the Parliament of Great Britain Category:18th-century English landowners --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Christopher Atkinson Saville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Atkinson_Saville) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Atkinson_Saville?action=history)). 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