Goodrich, Chauncey Allen (1790-1860)

US lexicographer, scholar, and theologian. As professor of rhetoric and later of theology at Yale College, he wrote several influential works on Greek and Latin grammar. He also prepared an English-language edition of the Bible. He supervised the abridgement of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language in 1829, and served as the chief editor of the revised and enlarged edition of Webster's dictionary in 1847. Goodrich was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the son-in-law of fellow lexicographer Noah Webster.