TRENCH, RICHARD CHENEVIX (1807-1886), Angli can archbishop and poet, was born at Dublin on Sept. 9, 1807. He was educated at Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge. While incumbent of Curdridge Chapel near Bishops Waltham, Hants, he published (1835) The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems, which was favourably received, and was followed in 1838 by Sabbation, Honor Neale, and other Poems, and in 1842 by Poems from Eastern Sources. He became rector of Itchenstoke (1845), Hulsean Lecturer (1845-46) and professor of divinity at King's college, London. In 1851 he wrote The Study of Words, followed by English Past and Present (1855) and A Select Glossary of English Words (1859). All have gone through numerous editions and have contributed much to promote the historical study of the English tongue. His paper, read before the Philological Society "On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries" (1857), gave the first impulse to the great Oxford New English Dictionary. His advocacy of a revised translation of
the New Testament (1858) aided to promote another great na tional undertaking. In 1856 he published a valuable essay on Calderon, with a translation of a portion of Life is a Dream in the original metre. In 1841 he had published his Notes on the Parables, and in 1846 his Notes on the Miracles, popular works which are treasuries of erudite and acute illustration.
In 1856 Trench was raised to the deanery of Westminster. Here he instituted evening nave services. In January 1864 he was ad vanced to the more dignified but less congenial post of archbishop of Dublin. He died in London on March 28, 1886.