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Richard Chenevix Trench was an English rhetorician, logician, economist, academic, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman and a prolific and combative author across a wide range of topics. Trench was an important figure in the revival of Aristotelian logic in the early nineteenth century. His view of rhetoric as essentially a method for persuasion became an orthodoxy, though it was challenged in mid-century by Henry Noble Day.