Background
He was born in Wellington on 8 May 1906.
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. 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. He died in Nelson on 4 March 1986.