Richard Chenevix Trench letter : Deanery, Westminster, to "Rev. and Dear Sir" : ALS, 1861 Nov. 23.

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Richard Chenevix Trench letter : Deanery, Westminster, to "Rev. and Dear Sir" : ALS, 1861 Nov. 23.

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R.C. Trench, Archbishop of Dublin, asks questions concerning his great-grandfather Richard Chenevix.

4 p. ; 19 x 12 cm.

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Trench, Richard Chenevix, 1807-1886

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Richard Chenevix Trench was a poet, philologist, and Anglican minister. Born in Dublin, he graduated from Trinity College and held a series of religious and academic positions, culminating in his 1864 appointment as Archbishop of Dublin. His poetry, in the spirit of Wordsworth and Tennyson, was popular, and he distinguished himself as a philologist with several influential works, notably his 1857 paper, On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries, which helped inspire the project to create ...