Charles Pocklington Chenevix Trench (29 June 1914 – 26 November 2003[1]) was a British Indian army officer, popular historian and writer.
He was born in Simla, India as the only son of Sir Richard Chenevix Trench, a member of the Indian Political Service.
He won the Military Cross for his conduct leading the company in a night attack on the final ridge held by the Germans on the outskirts of Assisi during the push against the Gothic Line in northern Italy.
He then returned to Hodson's Horse until 1946 before spending the last eighteen months of British rule in India in the Indian Political Service.
Kenya gained independence in 1963 and he took up teaching at Millfield in Somerset, remaining there until 1969, when he retired to Nenagh in County Tipperary to focus on writing.