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