Nathaniel Eckersley (1815 – 15 February 1892)[1] was an English mill-owner,[2] banker[3] and Conservative Party politician from Standish Hall,[4] near Wigan[5] in Lancashire.

His uncle was Colonel Nathaniel Eckersley, from Laurel House in Hindley, who served with the Duke of Wellington and at the military station established in Manchester after the Peterloo Massacre.

[15] He was defeated at by John Lancaster (MP) at the 1868 general election, when Liberal candidates took both seats in Wigan, and he did not stand for Parliament again for another 15 years.

[15] He was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1878,[16] and in that capacity helped to organise a fund for the dependants of the victims of the explosion on 7 June 1878 at the Wood Pit Colliery in Haydock,[17] where more than 200 miners were killed.

[18] When Wigan's Conservative MP Lord Lindsay succeeded to his father's peerage in 1880, and Eckersley was asked to stand at the by-election in January 1881, but refused.