Career

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