Christopher Pickering

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Christopher Godmond Pickering
Born 1842[1]
Died 1920[1]

Christopher G. Pickering (1842–1920) was a British businessman and philanthropist. He made his fortune as a merchant and ship owner, particularly in the Kingston upon Hull fish trade. In 1914 he founded a park, almshouses, church and children's home in west Hull. The park and almshouses still bear his name.

Biography

Christopher Pickering was born in 1842 the son of a tailor. In 1861 his occupation was that of a fish curer in Kingston upon Hull, and subsequently he became a fish merchant, and by 1881 a ship owner. He controlled together with a Mr. Haldane Pickering & Haldane's Steam Trawling Co. and the fish and ice merchants Pickering, Haldane & Co.[1]

He married to Rachael Blakestone, and moved to Hornsea in 1889.[1]

He founded six almshouses in Hornsea in 1908,[2] and in 1914 he built almshouses, a church, park and children's home in the west of Kingston upon Hull.[1]

He was presented with the freedom of the City of Hull in 1920,[3] He died in 1920 aged 78.[1][3]

Legacy

Both the Hull Almshouses (Christopher Pickering Lodge now a grade II listed building[4]) and the park (Pickering Park, Kingston upon Hull) he had built still bear his name, as does a local council ward (Pickering Ward).[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Christopher Pickering : A Rags to Riches Story". www.hullwebs.co.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "North division: Hornsea, section "charities"". A History of the County of York East Riding Volume 7: Holderness Wapentake, Middle and North Divisions. 2002. pp. 273–295. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Pickering and Ferens Homes : 100 Years of providing housing in Hull". www.pfh.org.uk. Pickering and Ferens Homes. November 2008. pp. 7-8. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  4. ↑ See:

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