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Richard Chenevix Trench
1807–1886
A churchman with a deep love of language, this 19th-century scholar helped shape how English speakers think about words, meaning, and history. Alongside his religious work, he wrote poetry, biblical studies, and influential books on the English language.
6 Audiobooks
English Past and Present
by Richard Chenevix Trench
Proverbs and Their Lessons
by Richard Chenevix Trench
A select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from their present
by Richard Chenevix Trench
On the Study of Words
by Richard Chenevix Trench
Poems from Eastern Sources: The Steadfast Prince; and Other Poems
by Richard Chenevix Trench
The Story of Justin Martyr, and Other Poems
by Richard Chenevix Trench
About the author
Born in Dublin in 1807, Richard Chenevix Trench became one of the best-known Anglican scholars of his time. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and built a career that joined church leadership with wide literary and scholarly interests.
Trench served as Dean of Westminster before becoming Archbishop of Dublin in 1864, a post he held until shortly before his death in 1886. Beyond the church, he was admired as a poet, theologian, and philologist, with books such as On the Study of Words and English Past and Present bringing the history of language to a broad readership.
He is also remembered for his role in the early history of what became the Oxford English Dictionary: his call for a more complete and historically grounded dictionary helped inspire the project. That mix of spiritual writing, literary culture, and curiosity about words still makes him an interesting figure today.