Peter Howard Barton (born 28 March 1941) is a New Zealand former cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Northern Districts and Otago.Peter Barton, CricInfo. Retrieved 5 May 2016.McCarron, Tony (2010). New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 16. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
Barton was born at Gisborne in 1941. He played Hawke Cup cricket for Poverty Bay in 1959/60, before making his first-class debut for Northern Districts in a Plunket Shield match against Otago in January 1963. He played three matches for Northern Districts before moving to Otago for the 1964/65 season, playing another three matches for the side. He played Hawke Cup cricket for Southland the following season before returning to play for Poverty Bay from 1968/69 until the start of the 1980s. He made two further first-class and two List A cricket appearance for Northern Districts in the 1974/75 season.Peter Barton, CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
Barton's son, Hamish Barton, played first-class and List A cricket for Auckland and Canterbury between 1995/96 and 2000/01 and has also played for the Argentina national cricket team.Hamish Barton, CricInfo. Retrieved 3 January 2022. His brother, Hugh played two first-class matches for Northern Districts in the 1957/58 season.Hugh Barton, CricInfo. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
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