Family, Education and Military Service
He was the son of Charles Godfrey Chenevix Trench (1877–1964) and Margaret May Blakesley. His grandfather was Richard Chenevix Trench (1807– 1886), Archbishop of Dublin.
Anthony Chenevix-Trench was educated at Shrewsbury School, where he was "one of the best classical scholars", and Christ Church, Oxford, where he won academic prizes. He fought in the Second World War and attained the rank of Captain in 1939 in the Royal Artillery. At the fall of Singapore in 1942, he was taken prisoner and remained a POW for three and a half years at Changi Prison and working on the Burma Railway. As a mental diversion during his captivity, he translated A Shropshire Lad into Latin.
He graduated from Oxford in 1948. He served as a magistrate (J.P.) for Berkshire in 1960.
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