Sir Christopher More (c. 1483 – 16 August 1549) was an English administrator, landowner, and Member of Parliament. More was the son of John More, a London fishmonger, and his wife, Elizabeth. He was active in local administration in Sussex and Surrey, and from 1505 until his death held office in the Exchequer, rising in 1542 to the post of King's Remembrancer. His sister, Alice More, was the fourth wife of Sir John More, father of Sir Thomas More.
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Family
Christopher More, born about 1483, was the grandson of Thomas More of Norton, Derbyshire. He was the son of a London fishmonger, John More, and his wife, Elizabeth. He had a brother, Robert More of London, who married a wife named Mary, and two sisters, Alice (d. 1545), who married firstly John Clerke, and secondly Sir John More, father of Sir Thomas More, and Anne, who married John Lucas of Halden, Kent.
Career
More was a clerk in the Exchequer by 1505, and in the same year purchased the office of alnager for Surrey and Sussex. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1513, becoming one of the first officers in the Exchequer known to have been formally trained in the law.
He served as Commissioner for the Subsidy in Surrey on several occasions from 1515 on, and by 1519 had been appointed verderer of Windsor Forest. In 1521 he was surveyor of the lands of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury. He was appointed Justice of the Peace in Surrey in 1522 and in Sussex in 1534, and continued to serve in that capacity in both counties until his death. During the years between 1530 and 1546 he served on various commissions in Surrey and Sussex, and was appointed Sheriff of Sussex and Surrey in 1532-3 and again in 1539-40.