Charles Barrell

{{Short description|New Zealand politician}} {{about||the American writer and art critic|Charles Wisner Barrell|the American soldier|Charles L. Barrell}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=October 2014}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Charles Barrell |image = Charles Barrell.jpg |alt = |caption = |constituency_MP = Hamilton |parliament = New Zealand |term_start = 27 November 1935 |term_end = 25 September 1943 |predecessor = Alexander Young |successor = Frank Findlay |birth_name = Charles Abraham Barrell |birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|09|02|df=y}} |birth_place = Rangiora, New Zealand |death_date = {{Death date and age|1958|01|14|1880|09|02|df=y}} |death_place = Auckland, New Zealand |party = Labour |other_party =  |spouse = Annie Jane Malvina Quinlon |relations = |children = 3 |alma_mater = |occupation = |profession = |signature = |signature_alt= }} '''Charles "Charlie" Abraham Barrell''' (2 September 1880 – 14 January 1958) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

==Biography== ===Early life and career=== Barrell was born in Rangiora in 1880. He became a farmer but later found employment with the New Zealand Railways Department and eventually qualified as an engineer. In 1902 he married Annie Jane Malvina Quinlon. He then was the manager of branches of Booth Macdonald and Co., Ltd at New Plymouth, Auckland and Invercargill. He then became the Town Clerk and Harbourmaster at Kawhia in the Waikato. He then left Kawhia and moved to Hamilton.<ref name="Obit">{{cite news |title=Obituary – Mr C. A. Barrell |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=16 January 1958 |page=10 }}</ref>

===Political career=== {{NZ parlbox header|nolist=true|align=left}} {{NZ parlbox|start={{NZ election link year|1935}}|end=1938|term=25th|electorate=Hamilton|party=New Zealand Labour Party}} {{NZ parlbox|start={{NZ election link year|1938}}|end=1943|term=26th|electorate=Hamilton|party=New Zealand Labour Party}} {{End}} He represented the Hamilton electorate from 1935, when he defeated Sir Alexander Young of the Reform Party.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=182}}<ref name="1938 election">{{cite web |title = The General Election, 1938 |url = http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1939-I.2.3.2.36 |publisher = National Library |access-date = 8 February 2012 |page = 2 |year = 1939 }}</ref> In the {{NZ election link|1938}}, he defeated Albert William Grant of the National Party.<ref name="1938 election" />{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=366}} In {{NZ election link year|1943}}, he was defeated by National's Frank Findlay.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|pp=182, 196}} He unsuccessfully contested the Hamilton seat again in a 1945 by-election.<ref>{{cite news|title=Declaration of Result |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19450604.2.23.1 |access-date=6 June 2017 |work=The New Zealand Herald |issue=82 |volume=25219 |date=4 June 1945 |page=4 }}</ref>

In 1940 he was appointed a member of the Auckland Harbour Board to fill a vacancy, but chose not to stand for re-election in 1941 stating that the war effort was taking a heavy demand on his time and he could not give warranted attention to the board's affairs.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19410424.2.105 |title=Not Contesting Poll |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=24 April 1941 |page=10 |issue=23948 |volume=LXXVIII }}</ref>

Barrell was a Social Crediter and later became the president of the Hamilton Social Credit Association.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Calderwood |first=David |date=2010 |title=Not a Fair Go: A History and Analysis of Social Credit's Struggle for Success in New Zealand's Electoral System |page=25 |publisher=University of Waikato }}</ref>

===Later life and death=== In later life he was the patron of the Waikato Trotting Club.<ref name="Obit"/>

He died in Auckland on 14 January 1958, aged 77. He was survived by his wife, son and two daughters.<ref name="Obit"/>

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==References== {{commons category}} *{{cite book |last=Gustafson |first=Barry |author-link=Barry Gustafson |title=From the Cradle to the Grave: a biography of Michael Joseph Savage |year=1986 |publisher=Reed Methuen |location=Auckland |isbn=0-474-00138-5}} *{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= Jim | author-link=Jim Wilson (librarian) |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year=First published in 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103}}

{{s-start}} {{s-par|nz}} {{s-bef|before=Alexander Young}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament for Hamilton|years=1935–1943}} {{s-aft|after=Frank Findlay}} {{end}}

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