Richard Chenevix Trench

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Richard Chenevix Trench was a grammarian, philologist, and a specialist in grammar and linguistics. He is noted for his lecture in 1857 to the Philological Society titled "On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries". This lecture proposed improvements that were later implemented in the development of a new dictionary. A grammarian is defined as a specialist in grammar or linguistics, or someone who writes about or teaches grammar.12

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19th and 20th centuries
In 1857 Richard Chenevix Trench, dean of St. Paul’s, lectured to the Philological Society on the theme, “On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries.” His proposals for a new dictionary were implemented in 1859, when Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s grandnephew, Herbert Coleridge, set to work as first editor.…
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In 1857 Richard Chenevix Trench, dean of St. Paul’s, lectured to the Philological Society on the theme, “On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries.” His proposals for a new dictionary were implemented in 1859, when Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s grandnephew, Herbert Coleridge, set to work as first editor.…
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