Sir Christopher Yelverton, 1st Baronet (27 March 1602 – 4 December 1654) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648.
[1] He was educated at Gray's Inn (1607) and Queens' College, Cambridge (1619), after which he spent several years touring Europe.
[3] He was created a baronet, of Easton Mauduit in the County of Northampton, on 30 June 1641.
In his last years, he is said to have been afflicted by melancholy and a deep consciousness of the sins of his youth.
Their son Sir Henry Yelverton, 2nd Baronet inherited the baronetcy and sat as a Royalist in the Convention Parliament, and their daughter Anne married Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester in 1665.