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BIRD, SIDNEY ARTHUR, son of Henry Bird, Uxbridge, Middlesex; b. 20 Jan 1864; adm. as exhibitioner (G) 31 May 1877; QS 1878; left Dec 1881; man. dir., The Century Trust; m. 6 Jun 1904 Norah Agnes Sarah Jane, dau. of Alexander Patrick McClery; d. 6 Sep 1929.

Bird, Clifford Gordon, son of Charles Ellis Bird, of London, solicitor, by Ellen Lancaster, daughter of Alexander Henderson; b. Oct. 15, 1877; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (G); left July 1894; St. Edmund Hall, Oxon., matric. Lent 1899; B.A. 1902; entered the South African Civil Service; seconded to the S. W. African Administration as Public Trustee; retired 1925; Senior Announcer, South African Broadcasting Corpn., Cape Town 1925-42; Property Manager of the Board of Executors, Cape Town; served in the Imperial Yeomanry in the South African War 1900, and as Capt., Cape Garrison Artillery, in Great War I; m. June 24, 1911, Joan Elizabeth, daughter of Andries Petrus Brink, of Worcester, Cape Province; d. 1947.

BINGHAM, HENRY, son of John Batt Bingham (qv); b. 1 May 1836; adm. (G) 26 Jan 1849; Ensign, 90th Foot, 16 Feb 1855; Lieut., 9 Sep 1855; served Crimean War and Indian Mutiny; severely wounded in one of Havelock’s actions at Lucknow, 6 Oct 1857; d. from effects of wounds received in India, 9 Jan 1860.

BILLINGHURST, HERBERT HAMILTON, son of Henry Billinghurst MD MRCS LSA, Lingfield, Surrey, and Margaret, dau. of Thomas Watkins, Stanley House, Dulwich, Surrey; b. 5 Jul 1861; adm. (G) 26 Jan 1877; left Aug 1878; in brewing trade until retirement in 1908; Capt., 11th battn., Loyal North Lancashire Regt., 25 Jan 1915; served in France and Flanders Jun 1916 - Sep 1917.

Billing, Herbert Samuel, son of Samuel Billing, of Wimbledon, solicitor; b. March 31, 1888; adm. April 23, 1902 (G); left Easter 1906; Univ. Coll. London; LL. B. (London Univ.) 1911; adm. a solicitor March 1912; practised at Guildford, Surrey; d. May 1962.

BIGWOOD, SIR (JAMES EDWARD) CECIL, eldest son of James Bigwood MP, The Lawn, Popes Grove, Twickenham, Middlesex, and Marian, only dau. of Edward Webb, Torquay, Devon; b. 1 Jun 1863; adm. (G) 1 Jun 1877; left Easter 1878; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. 1882, matr. Mich. 1882; BA 1885; MA 1890; spare man for Cambridge rowing VIII in 1885; chairman, Finsbury Bench and Standing Joint Committeee of County of London; JP Co. London 1892, DL London 1935; knighted 1938; m. 1908 Maud, second dau. of Robert Porter, Blackheath, Kent; d. 4 Jul 1947.

Biggs, Thomas Howard Ashford, son of Edgar Arnold Biggs, artist and pianist, of Chelsea, and Ida Bright Ashford, miniaturist; b. 28 March 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (G); left after ten days because of ill health and went to Canford Sch.; Lincoln Coll. Oxf., matric. 1936; a prep. school­ master, Broadstairs, 1945-68; author, journalist and archaeologist; RNLI Gold Badge 1974, Bar 1984; author of The Sound of Maroons 1977, The River Medway 1984; m. 1957 Lola Doreen Hussey, 2nd Officer WRNS; d. 1994.

Biggs, George Nixon, only son of Moses George Biggs, M. D., M.R.C.S., of New Wandsworth, by Elizabeth, elder daughter of William Nixon, of Pembrokeshire; b. March 28, 1881; adm. Jan. 18, 1894 (G); left July 1898; St. Thomas's Hospital; L. S. A. 1905; M.B. and B. S. (Durham Univ.) 1905; aural and throat surgeon; practised in Wimpole Street, London; Lieut.-Col. R.A.M.C. (T.) April 1, 1918; was consulting aurist and laryngologist at the Boulogne base and also to the R.A.F. during Great War I; mentioned in despatches; Portuguese military order of Avis; m. Gladys Victoria, second daughter of H. Archer; d. Nov. 10, 1922.

BIGGE, THOMAS CHARLES, son of William Bigge, Little Benton, Northumberland, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery, and Mary, dau. of Charles Clarke, Ovingham, Northumberland; b. 24 Jan 1739; adm. Oct. 1750 (Grant's); in school list 1754; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 Mar 1757; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 14 Apr 1755; Grand Tour (Italy) 1764-5; High Sheriff Northumberland 1771; contested Morpeth 1774; m. 6 Nov 1772 Jemima, dau. of William Ord MP, Fenham, Northumberland; d. 10 Oct 1794.

BIGGE, EDWARD THOMAS, third son of Charles William Bigge (qv); b. 19 Oct 1807; adm. (G) 22 Sep 1821; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 May 1828; BA 1832; MA 1835; Fellow of Merton Coll. 1833, later Tutor and Dean; ordained deacon 25 May 1834, priest 14 Jun 1835; Vicar of Eglingham, Northumberland, from 1837; Archdeacon of Lindisfarne from 15 Sep 1842; his name was remembered at Merton Coll. as the introducer of an especially strong ale, known as “archdeacon”; d. unm. 3 Apr 1844.