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Biography: Crump, Barry

Relationships: Barry and Fleur

Relationships: Barry and Fleur

Barry Crump was married for five months in 1962 to poet Fleur Adcock. The marriage was turbulent and violent; Adcock later told of how Crump regularly beat her.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1962/0098

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Brigid Magner. 'Crump, Barry', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2011, updated November 2012. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/34493/relationships-barry-and-fleur (accessed 4 June 2026).