Christopher Wilson (businessman)

[8][9] Matters became rowdy, with a Reform mob setting up a barricade in Kendal to keep out the Lowther party arriving from Dallam Tower to the south.

At this time Wordsworth, whose politics were Tory, commented in a letter to Lord Lonsdale, Viscount Lowther's father, that Wilson was wealthy, but not popular.

[14] Thomas Chalmers, who encountered Wilson in the 1820s socially, described him as "banker, with £10,000 a year, a great landed proprietor, a magistrate, and most intimately and intelligently acquainted with pauperism".

[15] He later quoted correspondence with Wilson, on the select vestry principle, in his work on poor relief, in The Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns (1823).

[19] He was succeeded by his brother William Wilson (1810–1880) who married Maria Letitia Hulme (1817–1873) at Stoke Gabriel, Devon in 1843 and had three sons and five daughters.