Henry Bernard Carpenter, born April 22, 1840 in Dublin or near Enniskillen

Enniskillen

Enniskillen is a town in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is located almost exactly in the centre of the county between the Upper and Lower sections of Lough Erne. It had a population of 13,599 in the 2001 Census...

, Ireland

Ireland

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 of an ancient landed family, died July 17, 1890 at Sorrento, Maine

Sorrento, Maine

Sorrento is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 290 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water....

, was a noted Unitarian

Unitarianism

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 clergyman, orator, author

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, and poet

Poet

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. 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), and A Poet's Last Songs (1891) published posthumously.

Personal

Carpenter was a son of the Reverend Henry Carpenter, perpetual curate of St. Michael's, Liverpool at his death in 1864, and brother of William Boyd Carpenter

William Boyd Carpenter

William Boyd Carpenter KCVO was a Church of England clergyman who became Bishop of Ripon and court chaplain to Queen Victoria.-Family:William Boyd Carpenter was the second son of the Rev...

, the Anglican Bishop of Ripon. He married Emma Bailey, and was father of a son.