Christopher Wyndham Wilson

Col Christopher Wyndham Wilson JP DL known as “Kit” (1844 – 1918) was an English landowner, agricultural pioneer and appointed High Sheriff of Westmorland in 1884.

[1] Wilson was born 9 November 1844 at Rigmaden Park, Mansergh, Westmorland.

[3] At this time he experimented in new agricultural techniques including fish farming on a series of lakes built on his lands and breeding shorthorn cattle.

[4] Wilson was a Conservative, being active in the 1880 United Kingdom general election on behalf of William Lowther (diplomat) in the Westmorland (UK Parliament constituency) and later founding and chairing the Westmorland Conservative Association.

He was also a sportsman, founding the Oxenholme Staghounds and the shooting in his "Valley of the Shadow of Death" on his estate.