[2] Atkinson was granted a royal pardon in 1791,[2] and was again returned to Parliament for Hedon in 1796,[1] holding the seat until he stood down at the 1806 general election.
He returned himself for Okehampton at the 1818 election, holding the seat until his death in April 1819, aged over eighty.
In his diary, Joseph Farington describes a dinner with John Constable in 1811 at which Savile was discussed: 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.
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 got into the House of a Corn Merchant Abraham Constable, a relation of our family, and by degrees obtained the whole business for Himself.