Education
University of London.
University of London.
After graduating from University College, London (University College London) in 1949, he remained there lecturing before moving to Selwyn College, Cambridge as University Lecturer in Phonetics in 1958. As well as setting up the Department of Linguistics at Cambridge in 1966, Trim was also president of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) and vice-president of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). The Language Centre at University of Cambridge named its independent learning centre, the John Trim Centre (Joint Technical Committee), after him.