Henckell Lochinvar Christian MBE (1910 – 1998) was a Dominican politician from the Dominica Labour Party.
Biography H. L. Christian studied sociology at the University of London. 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 the 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 (1920–1992) Gatecrashing into the Unknown in 1992.Gatecrashing Into the Unknown: A Dominica Journal, Act Press, 1992. at Google Books.
Married to Muriel, née Mathew, H. L. Christian was the father of Pearle Christian (third of the couple's four daughters), and the brother of Lemuel McPherson Christian, the composer of Dominica's national anthem "Isle of Beauty, Isle of Splendour".Gabriel Christian, "The Interwar Years & the Caribbean Soldier in Social Transformation: A DOMINICAN PERSPECTIVE". , p. 6, note 9."Pearle Christian: A Life of Musical Inspiration", June 2012.
References
Further reading Gabriel J. Christian, Aboard the Commandante Pineres, 2016. .