Christopher Horton (businessman)


Christopher Tait Horton was a New Zealand company director and sharebroker.
Born in Auckland in 1938 and educated at King's College, Horton was the son of Sheila Marie and Ian Chisholm Horton, and he was a great-grandson of newspaper proprietor Alfred Horton. He was a second cousin of newspaper publisher and philanthropist Michael Horton.
Horton served as chair of the Fishing Industry Board 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.