biography
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Trench, Richard Chenevix
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pronunciation:
[shenevee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1807–86)
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| biography:
| Anglican clergyman, philologist, and poet, born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied at Cambridge, became curate in 1841 to Samuel Wilberforce, and during 1835–46 published six volumes of poetry. He was rector of Itchenstoke 1845, professor of theology in King's College, London (1847), Dean of Westminster (1856), and Archbishop of Dublin (1864–84). In philology he popularized the scientific study of words, and the New English Dictionary was begun at his suggestion. |
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