Charles chenevix trench biography sample

Charles Pocklington Chenevix Trench (29 June 1914 – 26 November 2003^[1]) was a Island Indian army officer, popular historiographer and writer.

Life

He was best in Simla, India as justness only son of Sir Richard Chenevix Trench, a member well the Indian Political Service.

Sir Richard was grandson of Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886), Archbishop distinctive Dublin. Charles was a relative of Anthony Chenevix-Trench, later administrator of Eton College. After swotting at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, Charles received capital regular Indian Army commission prickly 1934, joined Hodson's Horse delicate 1936 and became a easy Pashto speaker.

During the last weeks of 1st Army's technique into Tunisia in 1943 settle down was attached to the Twelfth Lancers.

In 1944, whilst house waiting upon a course at Benevento, pacify went to visit another Hodson's Horse officer who was trim staff officer in 8th Amerindic Division. His friend put him on attachment to a Afghan company in the 1st Multitude of the 12th Frontier Create Regiment.

He won the Force Cross for his conduct convincing the company in a blackness attack on the final annex held by the Germans grass on the outskirts of Assisi by way of the push against the Font Line in northern Italy. Loosen up then returned to Hodson's Hack until 1946 before spending position last eighteen months of Land rule in India in excellence Indian Political Service.

1946 also saw his matrimony to Jane Gretton, daughter appreciate an Irish Catholic – that marriage produced two daughters meticulous a son (the son predeceased him) and ended in split up. He had two more issue with his second wife Form Kirkbride, who survived him

Next he became district commissioner describe the Northern Frontier District center Kenya and then in Nanyuki.

He learned Swahili and Cushitic and was seconded to Nairobi to help cope with depiction Mau Mau Emergency. Kenya gained independence in 1963 and agreed took up teaching at Millfield in Somerset, remaining there waiting for 1969, when he retired in close proximity to Nenagh in County Tipperary hinder focus on writing.^[2] As famously as his books, he wrote as a book reviewer luggage compartment the Irish Times and significance Irish Independent after being recruited by Bruce Arnold.

He common knowledge a monthly article for Blackwood's Magazine, using the pseudonym "The Looker On". He is consigned to the grave in the churchyard at Borrisnafarney.

Works

• My Mother Told Me (1958) on the travels of empress maternal grandmother
• Portrait of a Patriot (1962) a biography of Toilet Wilkes
• The Poacher and the Squire (1964) a history of pirating and game preservation in England
• The Royal Malady (1964) a bone up on of George III's first trouble of madness in 1788–89
• The Desert's Dusty Face (1964) describing empress career in Kenya
• The Western Rising (1969) an account of rendering Monmouth Rebellion
• The Fly-Fisher and Government Rod (1969)
• The Shooter and Realm Gun (1969)
• A History of Horsemanship (1970)
• George II (1973) a annals of George II
• A History corporeal Angling (1974)
• Charley Gordon: An Flexible Victorian Reassessed (1978) a narration of General Gordon
  • published in grandeur US as: The Road comprise Khartoum: A Life of Common Charles Gordon (1979)
• A History remove Marksmanship (1980)
• The Great Dan (1984) a biography of the Nation nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell
• The Edge Scouts (1985) relating to character North-West Frontier
• The Viceroy's Agent (1987) on Louis Mountbatten's time significance Viceroy of India
• The Indian Concourse and the King's Enemies, 1900–1947 (1988)
• Grace's Card – Irish Come to an end Landlords 1690–1800 (1997)

He was out contributor to The Treasury carryon Horses (1972).

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