Henry Bernard Carpenter Explained

Henry Bernard Carpenter
Birth Date:	22 April 1840
Birth Place:	Dublin, Ireland
Death Place:	Sorrento, Maine, United States
Notableworks:	The Oatmeal Crusaders,Being a Serio-comic poem
Spouse:	Emma Bailey (m.1878–90; his death)
Children:	1

Henry Bernard Carpenter (April 22, 1840  - July 17, 1890), was an Irish Unitarian clergyman, orator, author, and poet.^{[1] [2]} 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),^[3] and A Poet's Last Songs (1891)^[4] published posthumously.

Personal

Carpenter was a son of the Reverend Henry Carpenter, perpetual curate of St Michael's Church, Aigburth, Liverpool, at his death in 1864,^[5] and his wife Hester Boyd, of Derry, sister of Archibald Boyd, Dean of Exeter.^[6] His brother was William Boyd Carpenter, the Anglican Bishop of Ripon.^[7] With father, uncle, and brother in the established church, Henry Bernard Carpenter also made a life as a cleric, but within the Unitarian Church rather than Anglicanism.He married Emma Bailey in 1878, and had a son named Henry in 1882.^[8]

Death

Carpenter died on July 17, 1890, at the age of 50, he was survived by his wife and his 8 year old son. Carpenter received tributes from many, including poet and journalist John Boyle O'Reilly (who died less than a month after Carpenter). He was buried in North Bridgton Cemetery.

Notes and References

1. Thomas William Herringshaw. 1905. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century. Chicago, Ill.: American Publishers' Association, p. 194.
2. "Sudden Death of a Minister; The Rev. Henry Bernard Carpenter Falls Dead While Dressing." The New York Times, July 18, 1890.
3. Henry Bernard Carpenter. 1886. Liber amoris, Being the Book of Love of Brother Aurelius. Boston: Ticknor and Company.
4. Henry Bernard Carpenter, with an introduction by James Jeffrey Roche. 1891. A Poet's Last Songs. Boston: Joseph George Cupples.
5. Boase, op. cit.
6. David Morris, 'Bishop Boyd Carpenter: Sheep or Shepherd in the Eugenics Movement?', The Galton Institute Newsletter, 55, June 2005
7. The New York Times, op. cit.
8. Roche, Introduction, A Poet's Last Songs, op. cit.