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