{{short description|16th-century English politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Use British English|date=January 2026}} '''Christopher Pepper''' (1566/7 – 1635), of St Martins, Richmond, Yorkshire, was an English lawyer and politician.<ref name=HoP>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/pepper-christopher-15667-1635|title=PEPPER, Christopher (1566/7-1635), of St. Martin's, Richmond, Yorks.|website=Historyofparliamentonline.org|accessdate=7 January 2026}}</ref>
==Family== He was the son and heir of John Pepper of St Martins and his wife Anne.<ref name=HoP /> He married Margaret (d. 1619), daughter of John Smith of Easby, Richmondshire.<ref name=HoP /> Their son William died in 1620, leaving a son John.<ref>{{cite web|title=VCH Yorkshire 1: Catterick|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol1/pp301-313|accessdate=7 January 2026}}</ref> He was a cousin of Cuthbert Pepper.<ref>{{cite book|title=The History of Richmond in the County of York|first=Christopher|last=Clarkson|date=1821|page=96}}</ref>
==Career== He was probably the Christopher Peper who matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1583<ref>{{cite book|title=Alumni cantabrigienses|volume=3 pt 1|date=1924|page=343}}</ref> He entered Gray's Inn from Barnard's Inn in November 1587<ref>{{cite book|title=The register of admissions to Gray's inn, 1521-1889|date=1889|page=72}}</ref> and was called to the bar in May 1593.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Pension book of Gray's Inn|volume=1|date=1901|page=100}}</ref> Thereafter he was active as a lawyer in Yorkshire<ref name=HoP /> and in 1603 succeeded his cousin Cuthbert as recorder of Richmond.{{sfn|Clarkson|1821|p=xlvii}} He served town as Member (MP) in 1624, when Sir Talbot Bowes was mayor and so unable to sit.<ref name=HoP /> He also served as a Justice of the peace for the North Riding of Yorkshire between 1616 and 1628.<ref name=HoP />
He died in March 1635 and was buried in St Mary's, Richmond.{{sfn|Clarkson|1821|p=173}}
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