Sir Christopher Clitherow (10 January 1578 – 11 November 1641) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629.
He was also active in efforts to discover the North West passage, being named in a grant of incorporation to promote expeditions in 1612.
He was elected an alderman for Aldersgate ward on 2 January 1625 and was chosen as a Sheriff of London and Middlesex in the same year.
Around this time he was appointed member of a Commission formed to examine the accounts of moneys raised to repress pirates from Algiers and Tunis.
[5] Another daughter Rachel married Dr William Paule, Bishop of Oxford, and his son James purchased Boston Manor.