 His great-grandfather was The Most Rev.Dr Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886), Church of Ireland Lord Archbishop of Dublin, a senior-ranking Anglo-Irish cleric, and his cousin Charles was a British Indian Army officer, colonial official and writer.Anthony Chenevix-Trench, born at Kasauli in India on 10 May 1919, was the youngest of four sons born to the couple, the older ones being Christopher, Richard and Godfrey.