Philip Bickerstaffe (1639–1714) was an English merchant and the owner of Amble Works.
[5] He was known to be "a courtier of the Widdrington group but an unimpeachable Anglican" and a Clerk of His Majesty's Woodyard from about January 1669.
[6][7][8] Bickerstaffe was a free burgess of Newcastle, a member of one of the twelve mysteries of the same town, and was admitted to his personal freedom of the fellowship of Hostmen on 11 September 1684.
[9] On 15 November 1692, Bickerstaffe was said to have "claimed that the actions of three men in suing Sir Francis Bland in the court of Exchequer constituted a breach of privilege".
Through marriage, Bickerstaffe's seat became the newly built Chirton Hall in the 1670s.