Sir Christopher Peyton (died 1612) was an English lawyer known for his service in Ireland where he oversaw the Peyton Survey, a preliminary investigation in preparation for the Plantation of Munster.
[1] He was made Auditor General of Ireland, and knighted by James I for his service.
He was the younger son of Christopher Peyton of St Edmundsbury;[2] his mother, Joanna (Mildmay) Peyton, was the sister of Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
[3] Through Anne and her second husband, the third Sir Henry Colley of Castle Carbury, he was the ancestor of the Duke of Wellington.
Thomasine married firstly Captain Peter Castillion, a younger son of the Italian-born courtier Giovanni Battista Castiglione, and secondly Sir Robert Pigott of Desart.