Malcolm Horton

Malcolm Horton qualified with a City of London firm of chartered accountants and spent twenty years in industry with such companies as Esso Petroleum, BOC International,TDG Group and printing companies Williams Lea, Westerham Press, Maxwell Communications and Unwin Brothers at Chief Executive level.

He then set up his own accountancy practice and fine art publishers Contemporary Watercolours.

The Watercolour business involved working with the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge and leading British Schools producing watercolour prints from specially commissioned paintings by members of the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Academy.

Malcolm has written articles for Bygone Kent, This England and Kent Life.He has also read extracts from his book “Unknown Oxford “on Radio Oxford.He is a member of the Kent Archeological Society and regularly gives lectures to History Societies.

His previous books include “Watercolours in Academe” “Visions of Oxford and Cambridge””Portraits of British Schools””Sauntering Though Kent” “Unknown Oxford”The William Lea Ascendancy” Igglesden’s Kent Villages Revisited series.

He was a borough councillor in Bexley for four years and stood for parliament (unsuccessfully ) for the Lib Dem’s

His hobbies include walking, writing and playing geriatric squash.and supporting Charlton Athletic. He has three children and four step children and lives with his wife Lenny on the Pilgrims Way in Charing, Kent