Trench, Most Rev. Richard Chenevix

D.D. (Cambridge, 1856; Trinity College, Dublin, 1864), lord archbishop of Dublin, Church of Ireland; b. in Dublin, Ireland, Sept. 9, 1807; d. in London, March 28, 1886. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; graduated B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833, B.D. 1850; was ordained deacon 1832, priest 1833; became curate of Curd ridge 1835, and Alverstoke 1840; rector of Itch in stoke, Hants, 1845; dean of Westminster, 1856; archbishop of Dublin, Glandelagh, and Kildare, 1864; retired, 1884. He was Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge, 1845-46 chaplain to the bishop of Oxford (Wilberforce), 1847-64; profe or of divinity in King's College, London, 1847-58. He was a devout and conservative High Churchman of the best type, but his theological writings are free from sectional bias. He had no special administrative ability, and therefore was only moderately succe ful as archbishop. He threw the weight of his influence against disestablishment. As a writer, he showed choice biblical, patristic, and modern Anglo-German learning, original thought, and a reverential and truly Christian spirit. He is one of the chief authorities on the English language. He was the author of The Story of Justin Martyr, and other Poems, London, 1835, 5th ed. 1862; Sabbat on, Honor Neale, and other Poems, 1838; Elegiac Poems, 1841; Notes on the Parables of our Lord, 1841, 15th ed. 1886; Poems from Eastern Sources, 1842; Genoveva and other Poems, 1842; Sermons, Cambridge, 1843; Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, from St. Augustine, London, 1844, 4th ed. 1881; The Fitne of Holy Scripture for unfolding 1845), Cambridge, 1846; Christ the Desire of all Nations, or the Unconscious Prophecies of Heathendom (Hulsean Lectures for 1846), 1846; together, 5th ed. 1880; Sacred Poems for Mourners, London, 1846; Notes on the Miracles of our Lord, 1846, 13th ed. 18S6; Sacred Latin Poetry, 1849, 3d ed. 1874; The Star of the Wise Men, 1850; On the Study of Words, 1851, 18th ed. 1882; On the Le ons in Proverbs, 1853, 7th ed. 1879; Synonymes of the New Testament, Cambridge, 1854, 2d series 1863 together, 10th ed. 1886; Alma and other Poems, 1854; English, Past and Present, London, 1855, 11th ed. 1881; Life's a Dream: the Great Theatre of the World, from the Spanish of Calderon, with an E ay on his Life and Genius, 1856, 2d ed. 1880; Sermons, 1856; On the Authorized Version of the New Testament, in Connection with some Recent Proposals for its Revision, 1858 (reprinted by Dr. Schaff, with Ellicott and Light foot's treatises, New York, 1873); A Select Glo ary of English Words used formerly in Senses differing from their Present, 1859, 5th ed. 1879; Sermons preached in Westminster Abbey, 1860; Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia, 1861, 4th ed. 1883; Subjection of the Creature to Vanity (sermons), Cambridge, 1863; Two Sermons, 1864; Gustavus Adolphus: Social Aspects of the Thirty Years' War, 1865, 2d ed. 1872; Poems, collected and arranged anew, 1865, 9th ed. 1886, 1 vol.; Studies on the Gospels, 1867, 4th ed. 1878; Shipwrecks of Faith (3 sermons), 1867; A Household Book of English Poetry, selected and arranged, 1868; Plutarch: his life, Lives and Morals, 1873, 2d ed. 1874; Lectures on Mediaeval Church History, 1877, 2d ed. 1879. *