 Loyalty to his old school and house won out over both the remarkable opportunity of being headmaster of a major public school at age 32 and his academic responsibility at Christ Church, and Chenevix-Trench accepted the promotion at Shrewsbury, despite great distress at the conflict of loyalties.From Christ Church, Roy Harrod wrote that "There is something about the way this has been done that shocks me.I have a terribly strong sense that it is wrong".