Sir John Starkey, 1st Baronet

Sir John Ralph Starkey, 1st Baronet (1 May 1859 – 13 November 1940){{Rayment-hc|n|1|date=March 2012}} was a British Conservative Party politician.

Life

He was elected as member of parliament (MP) for Newark at the 1906 general election,{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918 |origyear=1974 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-27-2 |page=367}} and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1922 general election.{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949 |origyear=1969 |edition=3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X |page=446}}

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.{{Cite web|date=2017-04-28|title='After Brexit people will fall in love with English apples again'|author=Emma Sheppard |url=http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2017/apr/28/after-brexit-english-apples-bramley-starkey|access-date=2020-10-28|website=The Guardian}}

Starkey was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Nottinghamshire in 1906,{{London Gazette| issue=27928 |page=4559 | date=3 July 1906}} and was made a baronet in July 1935, of Norwood Park in the parish of Southwell and County of Nottingham.{{London Gazette|issue=34179 |date=12 July 1935|page=4522|city=London}}

He died in 1940.