9 Sept 1807 A.D. Birth of Richard C. Trench: Dean of Westminster, Anglican Archbishop of Dublin (with French Huguenot Roots) & Scholar; One of the Anglican Worthies
9 Sept
1807 A.D. Birth of
Richard C. Trench: Dean of Westminster,
Anglican Archbishop of Dublin (with French Huguenot Roots) & Scholar; One of the Anglican Worthies
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Richard Chenevix Trench
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1884
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Richard Chenevix Trench
(Richard Trench until 1873;[1] 9 September 1807 – 28 March 1886) was an Anglican archbishop and poet.
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1 Life
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2 Family
Life
He was born in Dublin, in Ireland, son of the Dublin writer Melesina Trench,[2] his elder brother was Francis Chenevix Trench.[3] He went to school at Harrow, and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in
1829.[4] In 1830 he visited Spain. While incumbent of Curdridge Chapel near Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire, 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.
These volumes revealed the author as the most gifted of the immediate disciples
of Wordsworth, with a warmer colouring
and more pronounced ecclesiastical sympathies than the master, and strong
affinities to Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keble and Richard Monckton Milnes.
In 1841 he resigned his living to become curate to Samuel Wilberforce,
then rector of Alverstoke, and upon Wilberforce's promotion to the deanery of Westminster Abbey in 1845 he was presented to the rectory of Itchenstoke. In 1845 and 1846
he preached the Hulsean lecture, and in the former
year was made examining chaplain to Wilberforce, now Bishop of Oxford. He was shortly afterwards appointed to a theological chair at King's College London.
Trench joined the Canterbury Association on
27 March 1848, on the same day as Samuel Wilberforce and Wilberforce's brother Robert.[5]
In 1851 he established his fame as a philologist by The Study of Words, originally delivered as lectures to the
pupils of the Diocesan Training School, Winchester. His purpose, as stated by
himself, was to show that in words, even taken singly, "there are
boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and
imagination laid up"—a truth enforced by a number of most apposite
illustrations. It was followed by two little volumes of similar character—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. Another great service to
English philology was rendered by his paper, read before the Philological Society, On
some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries (1857), which gave the first
impulse to the great Oxford English Dictionary.
His advocacy of a revised translation of the New Testament (1858) helped promote another great national project. In 1856 he published
a valuable essay on Calderón, 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 of our Lord, and in 1846 his Notes
on the Miracles, popular works which are treasuries of erudite and acute
illustration.
In 1856 Trench became Dean of Westminster Abbey, a position which suited him. Here he introduced evening nave services. In January 1864 he was advanced to the post of Archbishop of Dublin. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley had
been first choice, but was rejected by the Irish Church, and, according to Bishop Wilberforce's correspondence, Trench's
appointment was favoured neither by the prime minister nor the lord-lieutenant.
It was, moreover, unpopular in Ireland, and a blow to English literature;
yet it turned out to be fortunate. Trench could not prevent the disestablishment of the Irish Church, though he resisted with dignity. But, when the disestablished communion had to be
reconstituted under the greatest difficulties, it was important that the
occupant of his position should be a man of a liberal and genial spirit.
This was the work of the remainder of Trench's life; it
exposed him at times to considerable abuse, but he came to be appreciated, and,
when in November 1884 he resigned his archbishopric because of poor health,
clergy and laity unanimously recorded their sense of his "wisdom,
learning, diligence, and munificence." He had found time for Lectures
on Medieval Church History (1878); his poetical works were rearranged and
collected in two volumes (last edition, 1885). He died in London, after a lingering illness.
From 1872 and during his successor's incumbency the post
of Dean of Christ Church, Dublin was
held with the archbishopric. He died on 28 March 1886 at Eaton Square, London, and was buried at Westminster Abbey.[5]
George W. E. Russell
described Trench as "a man of singularly vague and dreamy habits" and
recounted the following anecdote of his old age:
He once went back to pay a visit to his successor, Lord Plunket.
Finding himself back again in his old palace, sitting at his old dinner-table,
and gazing across it at his wife, he lapsed in memory to the days when he was
master of the house, and gently remarked to Mrs Trench, "I am afraid, my
love, that we must put this cook down among our failures."[6]
See his Letters and Memorials (2 vols., 1886).
Family
He was the son of Richard Trench (1774–1860) and Melesina
Chenevix (1768–1827).[5] He married his cousin, Hon. Frances Mary Trench, daughter of Francis
Trench and Mary Mason, and sister of the 2nd Lord Ashtown, on
1 June 1832.[5] They had 14 children; 8 sons and 6 daughters:[1]
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Francis
William Trench (1833–1841)
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Melesina
Mary Chenevix Trench (1834–1918)
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Richard
Trench (1836–1861)
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Frederick
Chenevix Trench (1837–1894)
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Charles
Chenevix Trench (1839–1933)
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Arthur
Julius Trench (1840–1860)
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Emily
Elizabeth Trench (1842–1842)
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Philip
Chenevix Trench (1843–1848)
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Edith
Chenevix Trench (1844–1942), married in 1889 Reginald
Stephen Copleston
(1845-1925), Bishop of Colombo and later Bishop of Calcutta
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Helen
Emily Chenevix Trench (1846–1935)
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Frances
Harriet Chenevix Trench (1847–1941)
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Rose
Julia Chenevix Trench (1848–1902)
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Alfred
Chenevix Trench (1849–1938)
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Herbert
Francis Chenevix Trench (1850–1900)
Works
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Christ
the desire of all nations. 1846
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Poems
from Eastern sources, Genoveva, and other poems. 1851
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Notes
on the miracles of Our Lord. 1852
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The
fitness of the Holy Scripture. 1854
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English
past and present. 1855
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Synonyms
of the New Testament. 1855
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Calderon,
his life and genius, with specimens of his plays. 1856
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Life’s
a dream. The great theatre of the world. 1856
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On
some deficiencies in our English dictionaries. 1857
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On
the Authorized version of the New Testament. 1858
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A
select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from their
present. 1860
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Sermons
preached in Westminster Abbey. 1860
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Notes
on the parables of Our Lord. 1861
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Proverbs
and their lessons. 1861
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A
household book of English poetry. 1868
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Plutarch,
his life, and his Lives and his Morals. 1873
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Sacred
Latin poetry. 1874
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Studies
in the Gospels. 1874
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Notes
on The Parables of Our Lord. 1877
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Synonyms
of the New Testament. 1880
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Brief
thoughts and meditations on some passages in Holy Scripture. 1884
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Lectures
on medieval church history. 1886
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The
Seven Churches. 1897
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References
1.
^ Jump up to: a b "Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Richard Chenevix Trench". thepeerage.com. 23
December 2007. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
2.
Jump up ^ Boylan, Henry (1998). A Dictionary of Irish
Biography, 3rd Edition. Dublin: Gill and MacMillan. p. 429. ISBN 0-7171-2945-4.
3.
Jump up ^
Carlyle, Edward Irving (1899). "Trench, Francis Chenevix". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
4.
Jump up ^ "Trench, Richard Chenevix
(TRNC825RC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University
of Cambridge.
5.
^ Jump up to: a b c d Blain, Rev. Michael (2007). The Canterbury Association (1848-1852): A Study of
Its Members’ Connections. Christchurch: Project Canterbury. pp. 82–83.
Retrieved 2 April 2013.
6.
Jump up ^ George W. E. Russell, Collections &
Recollections (revised edition, Smith, Elder & Co, 1899), at page 343.
Sources
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This
article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed.
(1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.).
Cambridge University Press.
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