Richard Chevenix Trench
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The Most Reverend Richard Chenevix Trench |
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| Archbishop of Dublin Primate of Ireland |
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| Church | Church of Ireland |
| Province | Province of Dublin |
| Diocese | Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough |
| Installed | 1864 |
| Term ended | 1884 |
| Predecessor | Richard Whately |
| Successor | William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket |
| Other posts | Dean of Westminster (1856–1864) |
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| Born |
9 September 1807 Dublin, Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Died | 28 March 1886 (aged 78) Eaton Square, London |
| Buried | Westminster Abbey |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
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Richard Chenevix Trench (Richard Trench until 1873; 9 September 1807 – 28 March 1886) was an Anglican archbishop and poet.
He was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Richard Trench (1774–1860), barrister-at-law, and the Dublin writer Melesina Chenevix (1768–1827). His elder brother was Francis Chenevix Trench. He went to school at Harrow, and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1829. 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.
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