Richard Chevenix Trench

Richard Chevenix Trench (Dublin, 9 september 1807 – Eaton Square, Londen, 28 maart 1886) was een Iers anglicaans bisschop, dichter, filoloog en taalfilosoof.

Trench studeerde theologie in Cambridge en sloot zich aan bij het geheim studentengenootschap The Apostles. Hij trouwde in 1832 en werd dat jaar tot diaken geordineerd. Op 5 juli 1835 werd hij tot anglicaans priester gewijd. Dat jaar gaf hij een eerste boek uit: de dichtbundel Justinus Martyr, and Other Poems. In 1838 volgde Sabbation, Honor Neale, and other Poems en Poems from Eastern Sources. Hij toonde zich hierin een getalenteerd student van William Wordsworth.

In 1841 werd hij kapelaan van Samuel Wilberforce.

Daarna concentreerde hij zich op taalstudies. Hij publiceerde een Study of Words (1851), English, Past and Present (1855) en A Select Glossary of English Words (1859). Zijn voordracht On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries (1857) gaf een eerste impuls voor het samenstellen van de Oxford English Dictionary.

Werken

• The Story of Justin Martyr and other Poems (1835).
• The Story of Justin Martyr and other Poems (2nd Edition, 1835).
• Sabbation; Honor Neale, and other Poems (1838).
• Poems (1841).
• Poems from Eastern Sources: the Steadfast Prince, and other Poems (1842).
• Genoveva: a Poem, (1842).
• The Story of Justin Martyr: Sabbation and Other Poems (1844).
• The Fitness of Holy Scripture for Unfolding the Spiritual Life of Man (1845 & 1856).
• Christ the Desire of all Nations: Being The Hulsean Lectures (1846).
• The Hulsean Lectures: Christ the Desire of all Nations for 1845 and 1846: 2nd ed., rev. (1847).
• Notes on the Parables of Our Lord (1847).
• Sacred Latin Poetry (1849).
• Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord (1850).
• The Star of the Wise Men (1850).
• Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount: Second Edition Revised and Improved (1851).
• Poems from Eastern Sources, Genoveva, and other Poems (1851).
• On the Lessons in Proverbs: Five Lectures (1853).
• On the Study of Words: Five Lectures, Fourth Edition Revised (1853).
• The Fitness of the Holy Scripture (1854).
• Alma: and Other Poems (1855).
• Calderon, his Life and Genius, with Specimens of his Plays (1856).
• Life's a Dream: The Great Theatre of the World translated from the Spanish of Calderon, with an Essay on His Life and Genius (1856 & 1860).
• Poems (1856).
• On Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries (1857).
• Sermons Preached Before the University of Cambridge (1857).
• On the Authorized Version of the New Testament (1858).
• Brands Plucked Out of the Fire: A Sermon (1858).
• On the English Language, Past and Present: Five Lectures (1858).
• A Select Glossary of English Words (1860).
• Sermons Preached in Westminster Abbey (1860).
• Synonyms of the New Testament: Fifth Edition Revised (1860).
• Proverbs and their Lessons (1861).
• Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia: Revelation II, III (1863).^{[dode link]}
• Every Good Gift from Above (1864).
• Poems: Collected and Arranged Anew (1865).
• Studies in the Gospels (1867).
• A Household Book of English Poetry (1868).
• Plutarch, his life, and his Lives and his Morals (1873).
• Sermons Preached for the Most Part in Ireland (1873).
• Synonyms of the New Testament: 9th ed., improved (1880).
• Brief Thoughts and Meditations on some Passages in Holy Scripture (1884).
• Lectures on Medieval Church History (1886).
• Sermons New and Old (1886).
• Shipwrecks of Faith: Three Sermons (1886).
• Sonnets and Elegiacs (1910).
• The Study of Words: Condensed by Grenville Kleiser (1911).