Editing Charles Waterton (section)

==Legacy==
Waterton is chiefly remembered for his association with [[curare]], and for his writings on natural history and conservation. [[David Attenborough]] has described him  as "one of the first people anywhere to recognise, not only that the natural world was of great importance, but that it needed protection as humanity made more and more demands on it".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/local/more-wakefield-news/sir-david-attenborough-will-open-city-centre-s-new-museum-1-5439242 |title=Sir David Attenborough will open city centre's new museum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226001558/http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/local/more-wakefield-news/sir-david-attenborough-will-open-city-centre-s-new-museum-1-5439242 |archive-date=26 February 2013 |newspaper=Wakefield Express |date=23 February 2013 |access-date=30 May 2024}}</ref>

Waterton's house, Walton Hall, which may be approached only by a pedestrian bridge to its own island, is now the main building of a hotel. There is a golf course in the vicinity and various public footpaths, some leading to a nature reserve, Anglers Country Park.

[[Waterton Lake]]s in [[Alberta]], Canada, now a [[Waterton Lakes National Park|national park]], was named after him by [[Thomas Blakiston]] in 1858. A road and school in Wakefield, Yorkshire, are also named after him.

Waterton was a slave owner,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146630589 | title=Summary of Individual &#124; Legacies of British Slavery }}</ref> although later wrote: "Slavery can never be defended: he whose heart is not of iron can never wish to be able to defend it."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Mark |title=Yorkshire estate known as world's first nature reserve gets Grade II listing |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/27/yorkshire-estate-known-as-worlds-first-nature-reserve-gets-grade-ii-listing-waterton-park |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=5 April 2024 |date=27 March 2024}}</ref>

In 2024, [[Walton Hall, West Yorkshire|Waterton Park]] was registered at [[Listed building|Grade II]] by [[Historic England]], to protect the landscape which Waterton designed to protect wildlife and is considered the world's first nature reserve.<ref>{{NHLE |num=1487471 |desc=Waterton Park, Walton, Wakefield, Walton |access-date=30 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=27 March 2024 |title=World's First Nature Reserve Given Protection by Historic England |publisher=Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in-your-area/yorkshire/worlds-first-nature-reserve-given-protection/ |access-date=28 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref>