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See also:RICHARD CHENEVIX See also:TRENCH (1807-1886)
, See also:Anglican See also:archbishop and poet, was See also:born at See also:Dublin on the 9th of See also:September 1807
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He went to school at See also:Harrow, and graduated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1829
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In 1830 he visited See also:Spain
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While See also:incumbent of Curdridge See also:Chapel near Bishops See also:Waltham in See also:Hampshire, he published (1835) The See also:Story of See also:Justin See also:Martyr and Other
Poems, which was favourably received, and was followed in 1838 by See also:Sabbation, Honor See also:Neale, and other Poems, and in 1842 by Poems from Eastern See also:Sources
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These volumes revealed the author as the most gifted of the immediate disciples of See also:Wordsworth, with a warmer colouring and more pronounced ecclesiastical sympathies than the See also:master, and strong See also:affinities to See also:Tennyson, See also:Keble and Monckton 1\'Iilnes
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In 1841 he resigned his living to become See also:curate to See also:Samuel See also:Wilberforce, then See also:rector of Alverstoke, and upon Wilberforce's promotion to the deanery of See also:Westminster in 1845 he was presented to the rectory of Itchenstoke
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In 1845 and 1846 he preached the Hulsean lecture, and in the former See also:year was made examining See also:chaplain to Wilberforce, now See also:bishop of See also:Oxford
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He was shortly afterwards appointed to a theological See also:chair at See also:
Another See also:great service to English See also:philology was rendered by his See also:paper, read before the Philological Society, " On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries " (1857), which gave the first impulse to the great Oxford New EnglishDictionary
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His advocacy of a revised See also:translation of the New Testament (1858) aided to promote another great See also:national undertaking
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In 1856 he published a valuable See also:essay on See also:Calderon,with a translation of a portion of See also:Life is a See also:Dream in the See also:original See also:metre
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In 1841 he had published his Notes on the Parables, and in 1846 his Notes on the Miracles, popular See also:works which are treasuries of erudite and acute See also:illustration
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In 1856 See also:Trench was raised to the deanery of Westminster, probably the position which suited him best
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Here he instituted evening See also:nave services
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In See also:January 1864 he was advanced to the more dignified but less congenial See also:post of archbishop of Dublin
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See also:Stanley had been named, but rejected by the Irish See also:
But, when the disestablished communion had to be reconstituted under the greatest difficulties, it was found of the highest importance that the occupant of his position should be a See also:man of a liberal and genial spirit
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This was the See also:work of the See also:remainder of Trench's life; it exposed him at times to considerable misconstruction and obloquy, but he came to be appreciated, and, when in See also:November 1884 he resigned his See also:arch-bishopric from infirmity, See also:clergy and laity unanimously recorded their sense of his " See also:wisdom, learning, See also:diligence, and munificence." He had found See also:time for Lectures on See also:Medieval Church See also:History (1878); his poetical works were rearranged and collected in two volumes (last edition, 1885)
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He died in London, after a lingering illness, on the 28th of See also: |
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