Archbishop Trench, who two years ago resigned the Arch- bishopric
of Dublin, died on Sunday morning in Eaton Square, in his 79th year. He graduated in the University of Cambridge in 1829, and early in life made a considerable reputation as a poet and a scholar,—at least, so far as regards scholarship in the New Testament. His first curacy was under Hugh James Ross, at Hadleigh, in Suffolk, and he early attached himself to Dr. Wilberforce, the Bishop, first of Oxford, and afterwards of Winchester, and under him, then only an Archdeacon, Trench took a curacy. When Dr. Wilberforce became Dean of Westminster, in 1845, Mr. Trench became the Rector of Itchen Stoke. For several years Dr. Trench was a Professor in King's College, London, and in 1856 he succeeded Dean Buckland in the Deanery of Westminster, which he held for seven years, and then, in 1863, was raised to the Archbishopric of Dublin. He made a good Archbishop of a sober, though genuinely devout type, and on the Disestablishment of the Irish Church in 1869, set a good example of dignity, fortitude, and self-restraint. His various books were all interesting, though not all equally marked by commanding ability. But nothing showed his mind to better advantage than his more thoughtful poems and his studies on the interpretation of Scripture and of Scripture words. Amongst his collected poems are a few which will be permanently enjoyed and remembered by all who read them, for they are marked by delicacy, veracity, and distinction of style.
