Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
James Chenevix Trench
Standard Name: Trench, James Chenevix
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5 November 1857: At a meeting of the London Philological Society,...
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5 November 1857
At a meeting of the LondonPhilological Society, James Chenevix Trench (son of the poet and diarist Melesina Trench) proposed the compilation of what eventually became the Oxford English Dictionary.
Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything. Oxford University Press, 2003.