Christopher Tait Horton (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. He died at Ruakaka in 2015, aged 76.[1]