Archibald Charles Barrington Explained

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.

Along with Ormond Burton, he was one of the founders of the Christian Pacifist Society of New Zealand.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.

He died in Nelson on 4 March 1986.

Works

• Trials of a pacifist. Christian Pacifist Society, 1970, 22 pages.^[3]
• The Prison Diary of A.C. Barrington. John Pratt (Ed.) 2016,

Notes and References

1. [J. E. Cookson]
2. Web site: The Prison Diary of A.C. Barrington: Dissent and conformity in wartime New Zealand.
3. Web site: Trials of a pacifist . WorldCat.org . 8 September 2023.