Harrington , Rev. Thomas

- bn – d. - . Pastor. Trained at Pastors' College, London. Churches: Wellington 1878-79; Kirwee & Oxford 1881; Invercargill 1882-84. President Canterbury Assn, 1881. The founding Pastor at Wellington, Harrington was forced to resign within a year over a proposed merger with ‘Bethel’, an earlier baptistic fellowship. He was an early advocate for Union, but by 1884 he was forced again to resign, this time from Invercargill, for ‘unethical conduct’. He left the colony and undertook a ministry in South Australia but returned in 1889. He was refused accreditation, lacking a satisfactory recommendation from S.A.. He made efforts to join the Southland Presbytery in 1890. The Union dissociated itself from his independent ministry in 1897. Refs: NZB January 1890, 11; April 1890, 56; January 1897, 9.