Christopher Horton (businessman)

Christopher Tait Horton CBE JP (11 November 1938 – 12 February 2015) was a New Zealand company director and sharebroker.^[1][2]

Born in Auckland in 1938^[3] and educated at King's College,^[4] Horton was the son of Sheila Marie (née Figgis) and Ian Chisholm Horton,^[3] and he was a great-grandson of newspaper proprietor Alfred Horton. He was a second cousin of newspaper publisher and philanthropist Michael Horton.^[5]

Horton served as chair of the Fishing Industry Board,^[2] and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to business management, in the 1994 New Year Honours.^[6] He died at Ruakaka in 2015, aged 76.^[1]