[3] When Newbury was about eleven years-old, the painter and arts administrator Thomas Armstrong recognised his artistic talent when he discovered the boy drawing at the South Kensington Museum.

Armstrong, whose own son had died at about the same age, persuaded Newbury's parents to allow him to adopt the boy and bring him up as an artist.

[4] In 1902 Trent was awarded a commission in open competition for a memorial to King Edward VII at Brighton and Hove.

[4] Other major commissions during his career included the recumbent effigy of Dean Pigou in Bristol Cathedral and war memorials at New Barnet, Beckenham, Wanstead, Ilford, Tredegar and Wallsend.

[1] Trent became an Associate of the Royal Academy and worked throughout his life from a studio on Beaufort Street, Chelsea, London.