Henry Bernard Carpenter

Henry Bernard Carpenter, born April 22, 1840 in Dublin[1] or near Enniskillen, Ireland of an ancient landed family, died July 17, 1890 at Sorrento, Maine, was a noted Unitarian clergyman, orator, author, and poet.[2][3] Educated at Oxford University, his written works were principally in verse, three of which were published, The Oatmeal Crusaders, or A Nine Days' Wander Round, Up and Down Mount Washington, Being a Serio-comic Poem (1875), Liber amoris, Being the Book of Love of Brother Aurelius (1886)[4], and A Poet's Last Songs (1891)[5] published posthumously.

Personal

Carpenter was a son of the Reverend Henry Carpenter, perpetual curate of St. Michael's, Liverpool at his death in 1864[6], and brother of William Boyd Carpenter, the Anglican Bishop of Ripon.[7] He married Emma Bailey, and was father of a son.[8]

References

  1. ^ Frederick Boase. Modern English Biography, Volume IV, (Supplement Volume I) A - C. Truro: Netherton and Worth, 1908, p. 606.
  2. ^ Thomas William Herringshaw. 1905. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century. Chicago, Ill.: American Publishers' Association, p. 194.
  3. ^ "Sudden Death of a Minister; The Rev. Henry Bernard Carpenter Falls Dead While Dressing." The New York Times, July 18, 1890.
  4. ^ Henry Bernard Carpenter. 1886. Liber amoris, Being the Book of Love of Brother Aurelius. Boston: Ticknor and Company.
  5. ^ Henry Bernard Carpenter, with an introduction by James Jeffrey Roche. 1891. A Poet's Last Songs. Boston: Joseph George Cupples.
  6. ^ Boase, op. cit.
  7. ^ The New York Times, op. cit.
  8. ^ Roche, Introduction, A Poet's Last Songs, op. cit.