Henry Bernard Carpenter

Henry Bernard Carpenter (April 22, 1840 - July 17, 1890) was an Irish poet and prose author, and a noted Unitarian clergyman and orator.

Life
He was born either in Dublin or near Enniskillen, Ireland of an ancient landed family, the son 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, the Anglican Bishop of Ripon. He was 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.

He married Emma Bailey, and was father of a son.

Carpeneter died in 1890 at Sorrento, Maine.