Christopher Tancred (11 November 1689 – 21 August 1754) was an English landowner, lord of the manor of Whixley, noted particularly for the trust established by the terms of his will.

His father was in 1685–6 High Sheriff of Yorkshire, and was Master of the Harriers to William III; his great-grandfather, Sir Richard Tancred, had as a Royalist compounded for his estates under the Commonwealth, and was knighted by Charles II for his services and sufferings during the civil war.

[1] Tancred claimed to have some training as a lawyer, but after his father's death, on 21 November 1705, he spent most of his time at Whixley, performing the duties of a county justice.

He called for the abolition of special bail in civil cases, the simplification of pleadings, the abolition of the more intricate forms of writs, the shortening of interlocutory orders in chancery, the payment of salaries to the judges, the relief of debtors from perpetual punishment, the simplification of conveyancing, the establishment of a general register recording real property securities and the encumbrances thereon, and the lessening of the fees and limiting of the numbers of "those upright dealers and worthy patriots called attorneys-at-law.

In his will, dated 20 May 1746, this settlement was recited, and the trustees were further desired to uphold the stone wall round the park and the head of fallow deer therein.