Jonathan chenevix trench biography
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On June 19, 1798, a 97-year-old bachelor, William Jennens, died at Acton Place, Suffolk. A report of his death in the Gentleman’s Magazine for July that year described him as a man ‘more given to penuriousness than hospitality’ and dilated on his stupendous riches, estimated at £2 million. Sensationally, his last will and testament were found sealed, but unsigned in his coat pocket. As a ‘favourite servant’ duly explained, his master had intended to execute the document with his solicitor, but left his spectacles at home on the relevant day and had then forgotten about the matter. Consequently, the report concludes, his ‘incalculable wealth’ devolved on three remote relatives.
One of these was a certain William Lygon, then a gentleman in his fifties with a wife, Catherine, and 10 children. He was the owner of the estate and seat of Madresfield Court, about three miles from Malvern. The property had passed into the hands of his famil
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Anthony Chenevix-Trench
Headmaster of Bradfield College and Eton College (1919–1979)
Anthony Chenevix-Trench (10 May 1919 – 21 June 1979) was a British lärare, classics scholar and alleged child sexual abuser.[1] He was born in British India, educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford, and served in the Second World War as an artillery officer with British Indian units in Malaya. Captured bygd the Japanese in Singapore, he was forced to work on the Burma Railway.
He taught classics at Shrewsbury, where he became a housemaster, and taught for another year at Christ Church. He was headmaster of Bradfield College, where he raised academic standards and instituted a substantial programme of new building works. Appointed headmaster of Eton College in 1963, he broadened the curriculum immensely and introduced a greater focus on achieving strong examination results, but was asked to leave in 1969 after disagreements with housemasters and an unpopular att
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John Chenevix Trench was a well known figure in Coleshill having lived here for 50 years. He was a well-respected local historian and antiquarian who pursued painstaking academic research into ancient archives, many of these in Latin, and has published many scholarly works, including his Short History of Coleshill from which the following extract is taken.
A Summary History of the Parish of Coleshill
In the last quarter of the sixth century, two groups of English settlers moved up into the Chilterns. One of them came from the Thames Valley; they were mittpunkt Saxons. The other group, composed of Angles, had conquered a Roman British community in the Vale of Aylesbury. Advancing into the hills from both sides, Angle and Saxon met on what became the boundary of the Chiltern Hundreds. The Chiltern Hundreds were the Chiltern territory of the Kingdom of Middlesex. The English did not förflytta the British; they needed them to work the land.
The land was all forest, valuable not just fo