Birch, Samuel ♂

Education

LL.D. 13.12.1862.

Birth/childhood

Born 3.11.1813 son of Samuel Birch, vicar of Little Marlow. [Minister]

Career

Entered Public Record Office, 1834. British Museum, 1836.

Keeper of Oriental etc antiquities, British Museum 1861 to death [1861-27.12.1885].

Publications

A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum. Vol. 1. (London: William Nicol, 1851)

History of Ancient Pottery. New rev. ed. (London: John Murray, 1873)

etc.

Death

Died 27.12.1885.

Sources

• DNB
• F. Boase, Modern English Biography...1851-1900. 6v. (Truro, 1892-1921)