Sir Christopher Sykes, 2nd Baronet (23 May 1749 – 17 September 1801)[1] was an English Tory politician and a Member of Parliament (MP) for Beverley from 1784 to 1790.[2]
In the 1790s he greatly improved the house and expanded the estate[4] He bought and enclosed huge areas of land for cultivation, built two new wings to the house, and landscaped the grounds, planting 10 square kilometres of trees. Sir Christopher left a vast estate of nearly 120 square kilometres and a large mansion set in its own 0.8 square kilometres of parkland, which survives in the family to the present day. Sir Christopher also employed Joseph Rose, the most celebrated plasterer of his day, to decorate Sledmere.
^Lodge, Edmund (1859). The genealogy of the existing British peerage and baronetage: containing the family histories of the nobility. With the arms of the peers. Hurst and Blackett. p. 837.
^"Sledmere House and Gardens" (PDF). Tourism Leafets Online. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
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