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.

Dr Keith Tankard