 The majority did not share this view, and Robin Lorimer, Chenevix-Trench's best friend at Shrewsbury, noted that Chenevix-Trench was merely upholding a rule then in force that even the most trivial mistakes by younger boys must be punished with four strokes of the cane by the monitors, but did not gloat over the effects.By this time Chenevix-Trench had already gained a Classics Scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, at age sixteen.At Christ Church Chenevix-Trench won further academic prizes, but not, in his first two years, the ones he most wanted.