Background
Starkie was the son of Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie of Huntroyde Hall, Padiham, Lancashire (a former Member of Parliament for Pontefract) and his wife Anne Chamberlain, daughter of Abraham Chamberlain of Rylstone, Yorkshire.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Starkie was the son of Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie of Huntroyde Hall, Padiham, Lancashire (a former Member of Parliament for Pontefract) and his wife Anne Chamberlain, daughter of Abraham Chamberlain of Rylstone, Yorkshire.
He was educated at Uppingham School and Trinity College, Cambridge being awarded Bachelor in 1851 and Master of Arts in 1854.
He was admitted at Inner Temple on 11 June 1853. He inherited Huntroyde Hall on the death of his father in 1865. He was Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Lancashire and colonel commanding the 3rd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment.
In 1868 he was High Sheriff of Lancashire.
He held the seat until the 1857 general election, when he did not stand again. Like his father before him, he was a prominent Freemason and was Provincial Grand Master (and Grand Superintendent) of the Province of Lancashire (Eastern Division) from 1870 till his death.
Starkie died at Huntroyd at the age of 71. They had three sons, the eldest of which, Edmund Arthur Le Gendre, inherited Huntroyde.
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In August 1853 Starkie was elected at a by-election as the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for the borough of Clitheroe in Lancashire.