Richard Chenevix Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886) was an Anglican clergyman, poet, and philologist who rose to become Archbishop of Dublin. He is remembered chiefly for his popular studies of language, including On the Study of Words, which brought etymology and word history to a wide Victorian readership. His 1857 papers on the shortcomings of existing English dictionaries helped set in motion the vast project that became the Oxford English Dictionary.