Samuel Birch

(1813-1885)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 NRA: Birch, Samuel (1813-1885) Egyptologist and archaeologist DNB: Birch, Samuel (1813-1885), Egyptologist LBT ID: SaBirch1885 VIAF ID: 757450 LOC ID: n86812820	B/BAP: 1813-11 DIED: 1885-12-27
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The grandson of the poet and lord mayor Samuel Birch (1757-1841); educated at Merchant Taylors' School, he was an keeper of oriental, British, and medieval antiquities in the British Museum.
REFERENCES TO Samuel Birch: Lord Lyndhurst to Samuel Rogers, 16 January 1844 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 11: The R.S.L. Found 1: ¶ 15 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter V. 1842-44.