Richard Comyns Birch

(1760 c.-1807)

LBT ID: RiBirch1807	B/BAP: 1760 DIED: 1807-04-28
SOURCES: The Athenaeum (January 1808) 104; The Harrow School Register, 1571-1800 (1937)
The son of Richard Birch of Wittle, he was educated at Harrow and at Stanmore under Samuel Parr; he was Postmaster General of Calcutta. The Athenaeum described him as “as at once the man of letters and the polished gentleman.”
REFERENCES TO Richard Comyns Birch: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XXII. Found 1: ¶ 32