 Two days later he died during an emergency intestinal operation, aged sixty, before his term as headmaster had officially come to an end.Chenevix-Trench's biographer, Mark Peel, credits him with transforming Bradfield, building the early foundations for Eton's later rise to academic glory, and bringing Fettes back to being a popular, happy and successful school.Even when just appointed housemaster at Shrewsbury, Peel describes him as having been "already a legend".