Arthur Carman, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Arthur Carman

Sports journalist and writer, bookseller, publisher, pacifist, local politician, historian

Date of Birth: 02-Aug-1902

Date of Death: 28-Nov-1982

Profession: politician, historian, journalist

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Arthur Carman

  • Arthur Herbert Carman (2 August 1902 – 28 November 1982) was a New Zealand sports journalist and writer, bookseller, publisher, pacifist, local politician, and local historian. He was born and died in Wellington, New Zealand.
  • He was born in Paparangi, Johnsonville, and lived in Tawa (originally called Tawa Flat).
  • In 1932 Carman moved to Ranui in Tawa with his new wife, Edith Clark; they lived at No 7 Iti Street, Linden.
  • Arthur had worked in the Audit Department but, hankering for a bureaucracy-free life, decided to become a Lambton Quay bookseller.
  • The couple liked the countryside, although Ranui had barely-formed metal roads and it was quicker for Edith to push the pram along the rail tracks to Tawa, picking up lumps of coal en route.
  • Arthur caught the morning train to the shop.
  • He started the agitation for a station at Linden to avoid having to pull the emergency cord to alight at Linden.He was a bookseller and publisher (as Wright and Carman, founded by his father Walter Carman); his Lambton Quay bookshop served as a landmark and meeting place for thirty years.
  • Arthur Carman Street in Paparangi is named after him. Carman served on several local bodies: the Wellington Hospital Board, the Tawa Borough Council and the Hutt Valley Power and Gas Board.
  • He stood unsuccessfully as an independent for the Wellington City Council in 1941 and 1944, and also for Wellington North in the 1943 general election - his only avenue to debate pacifism legally in wartime New Zealand.He published sports books as Arthur Carman (The New Zealand Rugby Almanack, The New Zealand Cricket Almanack; both annuals which he co-founded) and local-history books as A.
  • H.
  • Carman or Arthur H.
  • Carman.
  • These included The Birth of a City: Wellington 1840-1843 and Tawa Flat and the Old Porirua Road, which went into three editions (1956, 1970, 1982).Carman became a noted Christian pacifist, and spent some months in Mt Crawford prison in Wellington in 1941 for "subversion" when he attempted to publicly espouse the Christian pacifist view.
  • His viewpoint had changed from traditional Methodism toward Quakerism following a 1925 visit to the World War I battlefields (he had been touring the United Kingdom as the sole press-correspondent travelling with the "Invincibles" All Black rugby team), although he remained a Methodist local preacher for the whole of his life. Carman died in Wellington on 28 November 1982, survived by Edith, three sons and two daughters.
  • A biography based on his papers was compiled by members of his family and published in 1994 under the title A Full Life: Three Score Years and Ten, One Man's Life.
  • Bruce Murray and David Wood published a biography of Carman in 2011: Arthur Carman's Suitcase: The Life and Times of Arthur Herbert Carman.
  • A selection of the Papers of Arthur Carman are held at the New Zealand Cricket Museum in four boxes of his notes, scrapbooks and correspondence.

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