Christopher G. Pickering (9 November 1842 – 22 December 1920)^[1][2] 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.

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 Rachael Blakestone, lived in 114 Coltman Street, Hull, from 1874 to 1889, and moved to Hornsea in 1889 when he purchased The Hall.^[1]

He founded six almshouses in Hornsea in 1908,^[3] 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.^[4]

He died in December 1920 aged 78.^[1][4]

Both the Hull Almshouses (Christopher Pickering Lodge is now a grade II listed building^[5]) and the park (Pickering Park, Kingston upon Hull) he built still bear his name, as does a local council ward (Pickering Ward).^[1] The restoration of his Coltman Street home was featured in the third season of the BBC television series Restoration Home.^[6][7]