Sir John Ralph Starkey, 1st Baronet (1 May 1859 – 13 November 1940)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.
He was elected as member of parliament (MP) for Newark at the 1906 general election,[2] and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1922 general election.
[3] In 1910, his gardener planted the first commercial orchard of Bramley apples at Starkey's Norwood Park estate.
It was still in cultivation by the family in 2017.
[4] Starkey was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Nottinghamshire in 1906,[5] and was made a baronet in July 1935, of Norwood Park in the parish of Southwell and County of Nottingham.