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Herbert
Christopherson

Accountant & Town Councillor

Keith Tankard
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Updated: 14 October 2009
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DEATH NOTICE: see Cape Archives, MOOC 6/9/723, No 2413.

Herbert Christopherson was born in Blackheath (London) in December 1848 and became an accountant in partnership with Shaw Copeland. He also had an auctioneering firm called Chesterton and Christopherson.

He was elected to the Town Council unopposed in June 1879 in Ward 2 but retired on rotation in February 1880 and did not seek re-election.

He died on 3 August 1913 at the age of 65, and was buried at East London.

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