Archibald Charles Barrington
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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]
