Nathaniel Eckersley was an English mill-owner, banker and Conservative Party politician from Standish Hall, near Wigan in Lancashire. He sat in the House of Commons for three years in the 1860s, and two years in the 1880s.
1869 painting of Eckersley by Charles Mercier
Standish Hall was an estate and country house, built in 1573, owned by the Standish family in the south-west of Standish, Wigan. No standing structures of the hall remain on the former estate, however, some of its wooden-panel interiors have been preserved elsewhere.
Postcard of Standish Hall c. 1915
Drawing of Standish Hall, by John Preston Neale c. 1845
Demolition of part of the hall in 1923 after the removal of the interiors
Cat 'i'th' Window Cottage