Euton Christian was a remarkable man whose life was characterized by a determination to serve his community.
He was born in Jamaica, served in the RAF during the last World War, and was the first black person to be promoted to a managerial role in the Post Office, the first black magistrate, and the first to sit on a Crown Court bench.
To this can be added his role as a founding member of the West Indian Sports and Social Club in Moss Side and Manchester Council for Community Relations in the 1960s.
Some will remember him as one of the Windrush generation, to others he was a keen sportsman, a neighbour and a father.
All of which makes it fitting that he should be the subject of the next blue plaque organised by Chorlton Civic Society which will be unveiled today on the wall of the house he occupied with his wife Louise and family on Nicolas Road.
He was according to one source, “an inspirational man who achieved many extraordinary things. He and his story give just one example of why we should celebrate the men and women who travelled on the Windrush, and the many subsequent ships, who settled and made lives in Britain during the middle part of the twentieth century”.*
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| Euton Christian |
The ceremony will begin at the Lloyds Hotel at 2pm and move to Nicolas Road for the unveiling.
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| Euton and Louise Christian |
Location; The Lloyds Hotel Wilbraham Road, Chorlton, and Nicolas Road, Chorlton
Pictures; Euton Christian and Louise Christian
* The Windrush Generation – Euton Christian, Events, Manchester, Communities, Pastimes, archive & local history organisations at Manchester Central Library, https://manchesterarchiveplus.wordpress.com/2018/06/21/the-windrush-generation-euton-christian/
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