Christina Spencer was born in Leipzig in the former East Germany. She is a dual German/British National and came to study English Language and Literature at Liverpool University in 1959.
She has worked for the German Foreign Office in this country for 20 years and for the Liverpool based shipping company, Bibby Line Group, for 27 years. In 2005 she was awarded by the German Government the German Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstorden) – the equivalent of an OBE – for her services to Anglo-German friendship, and in 2009 the Lord Mayor of the City of Liverpool made her an ‘Honorary Scouser’ for services to the City of Liverpool.
Christina, who has lived in this country for sixty years, is the President Elect of the Rotary Club of Wallasey. She is a keen fundraiser and this year (on 16 March) embarked on a ‘virtual reality walk’ which she called ‘Get Lost Corona’. She actually walked three miles every day in order to get from Hoylake (where she lives) to Frankfurt/Main in Germany, a total of 209 days or 620 miles. She persuaded her friends to sponsor her by ‘meeting with her in virtual reality’ in many ‘exciting’ places and reached her destination on 12 October. Obviously in reality she was walking round and round her home town Hoylake in rain or shine.
She does a lot of public speaking to raise funds for various
charities; and in her spare time loves to ‘dabble’ in Encaustic Art (encaustic art is painting with a hot iron
and bees wax).
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