Le Gendre Starkie

Who was Le Gendre Starkie?

Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie was an English landowner and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1853 to 1857.

Starkie was the son of Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie of Huntroyde Hall, Padiham, Lancashire and his wife Anne Chamberlain, daughter of Abraham Chamberlain of Rylstone, Yorkshire. He was educated at Uppingham School and Trinity College, Cambridge being awarded BA in 1851 and MA in 1854. He was admitted at Inner Temple on 11 June 1853. He inherited Huntroyde Hall on the death of his father in 1865.

He was JP and Deputy Lieutenant for Lancashire and colonel commanding the 3rd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment. In 1868 he was High Sheriff of Lancashire.

In August 1853 Starkie was elected at a by-election as the Member of Parliament for the borough of Clitheroe in Lancashire. He held the seat until the 1857 general election, when he did not stand again.

Starkie died at Huntroyd at the age of 71. He had married Jemima Monica Mildred Tempest, daughter of Henry Tempest of Loscock Hall, Lancashire on 15 October 1867 at the British Embassy in Paris. They had three sons, the eldest of which, Edmund Arthur Le Gendre, inherited Huntroyde.