CHENEVIX TRENCH, Charles Godfrey. 30.12.1877 — 1.9.1964. British (Irish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Colonel Charles Chenevix Trench (1839–1933) and Emily Mary Lefroy. Educated at Loretto School, East Lothian. Studies at Oxford (Lincoln College, B.A.). From 1900 served in I.C.S., finally Settlement Commissioner, Mewar State, until retirement in 1910 (1920?). C.I.E. 1931. Married 1910 Margaret May Blakesley (d. 1981), four sons.
Publications: Grammar of Gondi as spoken in the Betul District, Central Provinces, India, with Vocabulary, Folktales, Stories, and Songs of the Gonds. 1-2. Madras 1918-21.
Sources: www.myheritage.fi; www.thepeerage.com; geni.com; Lincoln College Record 1969-1979, 23 (online).
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