Henry Bernard Carpenter

Henry Bernard Carpenter (April 22, 1840 in Dublin[1] or near Enniskillen, Ireland of an ancient landed family 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.

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