# Charles Barrell
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{{Short description|New Zealand politician}}
{{about||the American writer and art critic|Charles Wisner Barrell|the American soldier|Charles L. Barrell}}
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|constituency_MP = [Hamilton](/source/Hamilton_(New_Zealand_electorate))
|parliament = New Zealand
|term_start = 27 November 1935
|term_end = 25 September 1943
|predecessor = [Alexander Young](/source/Alexander_Young_(New_Zealand_politician))
|successor = [Frank Findlay](/source/Frank_Findlay)
|birth_name = Charles Abraham Barrell
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|09|02|df=y}}
|birth_place = [Rangiora](/source/Rangiora), New Zealand
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1958|01|14|1880|09|02|df=y}}
|death_place = [Auckland](/source/Auckland), New Zealand
|party = [Labour](/source/New_Zealand_Labour_Party)
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|spouse = Annie Jane Malvina Quinlon
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|children = 3
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'''Charles "Charlie" Abraham Barrell''' (2 September 1880 – 14 January 1958) was a New Zealand politician of the [Labour Party](/source/New_Zealand_Labour_Party).
==Biography==
===Early life and career===
Barrell was born in [Rangiora](/source/Rangiora) in 1880. He became a farmer but later found employment with the [New Zealand Railways Department](/source/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](/source/New_Plymouth), [Auckland](/source/Auckland) and [Invercargill](/source/Invercargill). He then became the Town Clerk and Harbourmaster at [Kawhia](/source/Kawhia_Harbour) in the [Waikato](/source/Waikato). He then left Kawhia and moved to [Hamilton](/source/Hamilton%2C_New_Zealand).[{{cite news |title=Obituary – Mr C. A. Barrell |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=16 January 1958 |page=10 }}]
===Political career===
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He represented the [Hamilton](/source/Hamilton_(New_Zealand_electorate)) electorate from [1935](/source/1935_New_Zealand_general_election), when he defeated Sir [Alexander Young](/source/Alexander_Young_(New_Zealand_politician)) of the [Reform Party](/source/Reform_Party_(New_Zealand)).{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=182}}[{{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
}}] In the {{NZ election link|1938}}, he defeated Albert William Grant of the [National Party](/source/New_Zealand_National_Party).[{{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 }}]
In 1940 he was appointed a member of the [Auckland Harbour Board](/source/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.[{{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 }}]
Barrell was a [Social Credit](/source/Social_Credit)er and later became the president of the Hamilton Social Credit Association.[{{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](/source/University_of_Waikato) }}]
===Later life and death===
In later life he was the patron of the Waikato Trotting Club.