Vincent Trought

Vincent Trought (April 8, 1893 - January 20, 1912) was a classmate of J.R.R. Tolkien at King Edward's School, and one of the T.C.B.S.. He was the first of Tolkien's friends to die (of illness); his place in the T.C.B.S. was taken over by Geoffrey Bache Smith.

Smith was stepping into the void left by Vincent Trought, who had been struck down by a severe illness in the autumn. Tolkien and the Great War, notes that Vincent Trought, one of the original members of the T.C.B.S., the literary club that Tolkien helped organize

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T.C.B.S., standing for "Tea Club, Barrovian Society", was a club founded in 1913 by J.R.R. Tolkien and his friends at King Edward's School in Birmingham. They usually met at the Barrow Stores, from which the club's name was derived. The main lasting members of the club were the "big four": J.R.R. Tolkien and his close friends Christopher Wiseman, Geoffrey Bache Smith, and Robert Quilter Gilson. Other members were Wilfred and Ralph "the Baby" Payton, Thomas "Tea Cake" Barnsley, Vincent Trought, and Sidney Barrowclough

England and Wales Census, 1901

England and Wales Census, 1911

England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007

Lieutenant Geoffrey Bache Smith

J. R. R. Tolkien

Lieutenant Robert Quilter Gilson

Christopher Luke Wiseman