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 WORKS BY Thomas Birch:
The Life of the most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Lord Archbishop of
Canterbury. Compiled chiefly from his Original Papers and Letters. Found 1.
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