Poetry

Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench: (1807-1886). Born in Dublin but raised near Southampton.

His father was Richard Trench, 6th son of Frederick Trench, of Woodlands, Co. Galway;

His mother: Melesina was the only grandchild and heiress of Richard Chenevix, Bishop of Waterford, and widow of Colonel St. George

The number of his brothers is not readily available but there were two sisters.

From a crayon drawing by George Richmond (1859).

1832 he married his cousin, Frances Mary Trench, daughter of his uncle, Francis Trench (2nd son of Frederick Trench, of Woodlawn, co. Galway, Ireland, and next brother to the 1st Lord Ashtown).

He was educated at school at Harrow, and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1829.

In 1841 resigned his living at Curdridge Chapel near Bishops Waltham in Hampshire to become Samuel Wilberforce’s curate. Wilberforce was then rector of Alverstoke. In 1845 when Wilberforce was appointed to the deanery of Westminster, he became rector of Itchenstoke. In 1845 he was reunited with Wilberforce who was now Bishop of Oxford, as Wilberforce’s examining chaplain. Shortly afterwards Trench was appointed to a theological chair at King’s College, London.

In 1856 Trench became Dean of Westminster, and in 1864 Archbishop of Dublin. He had the awkward task of handling the results of the disestablishment of the Anglican church in Ireland,

His works include:

• The Story of Justin Martyr, 1835
• Sabbation, Honor Neale, and Other Poems, with Notes, 1838
• Notes on the Parables of our Lord, 1840
• Elegiac Poems, 1841
• Poems from Eastern Sources, the Steadfast Prince and Other Poems, 1842
• Genoveva, 1842
• Five Sermons before the University of Cambridge, 1844
• Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, Drawn from the Writings of St. Augustine, with Observations, 1844
• Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord, 1846
• Sacred Latin Poetry, 1849
• Lessons on Proverbs, 1852
• Study of Words, 1852
• Synonyms of the New Testament, 1854
• English Past and Present Words, 1855
• Life’s Dream: the Great Theatre of the World, from the Spanish of Calderon, with an Essay on His Life and Genius, 1856 & 1860
• Poems Written During the Russian War (1854-1855)
• Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia, 1861
• Studies on the Gospels, 1867
• Lectures on Plutarch, 1873
• Timolem, 1881

(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

• After The Battle
• Harmosan
• In A Pass of Bavaria
• Sonnet 01
• Sonnet 02
• Sonnet 03
• Sonnet 04
• Sonnet 05
• The Onward Course