Ormond Burton
Ormond Edward Burton was a New Zealand-born teacher, soldier, war historian, Christian pacifist, Methodist clergyman, and writer, who was the co-founder of the Christian Pacifist Society of New Zealand.
A soldier in the First World War, and a recipient of the Military Medal for gallantry during a trench raid in 1917, Burton was imprisoned several times for his opposition to the Second World War, and was expelled from the Methodist church. He also wrote a history of the New Zealand Division, which was published as in 1935.
Burton contested the electorate in the under the banner Christian Socialist and came a distant last of the four candidates.
