Background
He was born and died in Wellington, New Zealand. He was born in Paparangi, Johnsonville, and lived in Tawa (originally called Tawa Flat).
historian journalist politician
He was born and died in Wellington, New Zealand. He was born in Paparangi, Johnsonville, and lived in Tawa (originally called Tawa Flat).
He was a bookseller and publisher (as Wright and Carman). His Lambton Quay bookshop was a landmark for thirty years. He was on several local bodies: the Wellington Hospital Board, the Tawa Borough Council and the Hutt Valley Power and Gas Board.
He published sports books as Arthur Carman (The New Zealand Rugby Almanack, The New Zealand Cricket Almanack.
Both annuals) 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)
He was noted as a Christian pacifist, who spent some months in Mountain Crawford prison in Wellington, New Zealand in 1941, for "subversion" when he attempted to publicly espouse the Christian pacifist view.