Alexander Randall Carrington
1848–1920
Civil engineer. Born in Bath, son of Henry Edmund Carrington, owner and editor of the Bath Chronicle. In New Zealand, circa 1870. Lecturer in field engineering at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, 1880, 1881. In New Zealand from at least the 1890s.
Sources
Blain biographical dictionary of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific s.v. Carrington, Charles Walter (anglicanhistory.org/nz/blain_directory/directory.pdf, accessed 6 June 2014)
BMD (Birth index)
Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1943/576/17), 1881 (RG11/2555/6/6)
letter from A. R. Carrington, 15 November 1880
New Zealand, death index 1848–1980 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 6 June 2014)
ODNB s.v. Carrington, Frederick George
Bibliography
BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
