Henry Bernard Carpenter

{{short description|Irish Ubitarian clergyman and writer}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Henry Bernard Carpenter

| birth_date = {{birth date|1840|04|22}}

| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1890|07|17|1840|04|22}}

| 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.Thomas William Herringshaw. 1905. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century. Chicago, Ill.: American Publishers' Association, p. 194."Sudden Death of a Minister; The Rev. Henry Bernard Carpenter Falls Dead While Dressing." The New York Times, July 18, 1890. 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),Henry Bernard Carpenter. 1886. Liber amoris, Being the Book of Love of Brother Aurelius. Boston: Ticknor and Company. and A Poet's Last Songs (1891)Henry Bernard Carpenter, with an introduction by James Jeffrey Roche. 1891. A Poet's Last Songs. Boston: Joseph George Cupples. published posthumously.