Thomas Birch

(1705-1766)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Birch, Thomas, 1705-1766 NRA: Birch Thomas (1705-1766) Historian Secretary of Royal Society Clergyman DNB: Birch, Thomas (1705–1766), compiler of histories and biographer LBT ID: ThBirch1766 VIAF ID: 4956694 LOC ID: n85158533	B/BAP: 1705-11-23 DIED: 1766-01-23
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Educated at Quaker schools, he became an Anglican clergyman, antiquary, compiler of reference works, and secretary of the Royal Society (1752-65).
REFERENCES TO Thomas Birch: Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 11 October 1802 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 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. XIX. 1790-1792 Found 1: ¶ n2 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1802 Found 1: ¶ 3