Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886) died #OTD 1886. As Archbishop of Dublin he oversaw the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland.

His best known philosophical work is "The Study of Words", in which he argues the study of words is not tedious exposition but the unearthing of fossil poetry. "Many a single word also is itself a concentrated poem, having stores of poetical thought and imagery laid up in it" (p. 21).

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