Archibald Charles Barrington (8 May 1906 – 4 March 1986) was a New Zealand clerk, secretary and pacifist. He was born in Wellington on 8 May 1906.[1]

Along with Ormond Burton, he was one of the founders of the Christian Pacifist Society of New Zealand.[2]

Wellington based, he was tried and convicted multiple times for anti-war activism during the second world war, spending a year in prison during which he kept an illicit diary.[3]

After the war he moved to the Riverside Community in Moutere outside Motueka, where he "work[ed] actively to build a good society and a more peaceful world", farming, campaigning and rising in the ranks of the Methodist Church of New Zealand.[1]

He died in Nelson on 4 March 1986.[1]

Works

  • Trials of a pacifist. Christian Pacifist Society, 1970, 22 pages.[4]
  • The Prison Diary of A.C. Barrington. John Pratt (Ed.) 2016, ISBN 978 1 927322 31 4

References

  1. 1 2 3 Markwell, Carol. "Archibald Charles Barrington". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. ↑ J. E. Cookson, "Pacifism and Conscientious Objection in New Zealand" in Challenge to Mars : essays on pacifism from 1918 to 1945, edited by Peter Brock and Thomas P. Socknat. University of Toronto Press, 1999.. ISBN 0802043712 (pp. 292-93)
  3. ↑ "The Prison Diary of A.C. Barrington: Dissent and conformity in wartime New Zealand".
  4. ↑ "Trials of a pacifist". WorldCat.org. Retrieved 8 September 2023.


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