Henckell Christian

Henckell Lochinvar Christian MBE was a Dominican politician from the Dominica Labour Party.

Biography

Christian studied sociology at London University. He worked as a teacher and later as a social worker.
Christian was elected to the House of Assembly of Dominica in 1970 and 1975. He was minister of education and health in 1970s in the cabinet of Edward Oliver LeBlanc. Patrick John appointed him as the Deputy Premier in 1975, and Christian continued as the Deputy Prime Minister since independence in November 1978. He resigned alongside acting president Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue on 16 June 1979.
Christian published his memoirs Gatecrashing into the Unknown in 1992.
Married to Muriel, nee Mathew, Henckell Christian was the father of Pearle Christian, and the brother of Lemuel McPherson Christian, the composer of Dominica's national anthem "Isle of Beauty, Isle of Splendour".