Archibald Charles Barrington
Clerk, secretary, pacifist
About Archibald Charles Barrington
Lived 1906 – 1986 (aged 79). Archibald Charles Barrington was a New Zealand pacifist.
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.
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.
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.
Works Trials of a pacifist. Christian Pacifist Society, 1970, 22 pages. The Prison Diary of A.C. Barrington. John Pratt (Ed.) 2016,
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Clerk, secretary, pacifist
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Archibald Charles Barrington was born on 8 May 1906.
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Archibald Charles Barrington died on 4 March 1986.
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Archibald Charles Barrington was a pacifist.
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