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Bird, Eric Hinckes, brother of Ashley Hinckes Bird (q.v.); b. Sept. 27, 1894; adm. Jan. 17, 1907 (R); left July 1912; R. M.C. Sandhurst Dec. 4, 1912; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.) Aug. 30, 1914; temp. Lieut. Feb. 11 - April 15, 1915; "Lieut. April 16, 1915; was invalided home after some six months on the western front; subsequently attached to the 25th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps as an Observer, and returned to France in June 1916; d. June 27, 1916, of wounds received in an air fight on the western front the previous day.

Bird, John Henry Benbow, son of Sidney Arthur Bird (qv); b. 13 Oct. 1907; adm. Sept. 1922 (A); left Mar. 1926; Brit. Coaling Depots Ltd, Port Said; killed in a yachting accident.

BIRD, RICHARD; b.; adm. (aged 11) Mar 1728; left 1736.

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, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1730/1; left 1732.

Birdwood, Christopher Travers, son of Francis Travers Birdwood, of Ealing, Middlesex, solicitor, by Amy, daughter of Halsall Segar, of Huyton, Lancs; b. Aug. 25, 1894; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 24, 1908 (A); left Dec. 1912; Lieut. 3rd Batt. Devonshire Regt. March 5, 1918; was twice wounded in 1917; attached to Staff in France until the end of the war; subsequently Intelligence Officer with the Army of Occupation at Cologne until Aug. 1919; on the staff of Brunner Mond & Co., Shanghai, 1920-28; of Fairplay Publications Ltd., London, 1929-53; m. Nov. 3, 1923, Martha Mary, daughter of Charles Brooks, of Marlborough, Wilts.

Birdwood, Felix Tolcher, brother of Christopher Travers Birdwood (q.v.); b. May 20, 1897; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (A); K.S. 1912; left Easter 1915; 2nd Lieut., unattached, Nov. 15, 1915; 36th Sikhs, later 4/11th Sikh Regt., Nov. 19, 1915; Lieut. Nov. 15, 1916; Capt. Nov. 15, 1919; served on the Mohmand Frontier 1915, in Mesopotamia 1916-20, and Waziristan 1921-3; Staff College, Quetta, 1929-30; served on Khajuri Plain, N. W. Frontier, 1931; Major Nov. 15, 1933; Lieut.-Col. Feb. 1, 1940; served in India, Iraq and Burma; O.B.E. 1946; retired Nov. 6, 1947, with rank of Col. and resided in Southern Rhodesia; m. Jan. 15, 1926, Louise Jesse Harriet, daughter of William Lamond, of Richmond, Surrey; d. 18 Apr. 1987.

Birdwood, Hubert Broderick, brother of Christopher Travers Birdwood (q.v.); b. Feb. 10, 1896; adm. Sept. 23, 1909 (A); left Easter 1914; R. M.C. Sandhurst; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. Middlesex Regt. Feb. 17, 1915; Lieut. Jan. 2, 1916; was wounded; retired 1920 as acting Capt., having served in France some two and a half years; M.C. May 31, 1916; engaged in mercantile business; m. July 18, 1918, Brenda Clephane Forrester, daughter of James Brown Fortune, of Stoke Poges, Bucks.; d. 14 Aug. 1980

BIRKETT, LLOYD BATLEY, eldest son of Edmund Lloyd Birkett MD FRCP, Russell Square, London, and Audrey Heydon, dau. of Benjamin Elisha Batley, Russell Square; b. 10 Aug 1853; adm. 24 Jan 1868 (James'); left Aug 1872; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1873; BA 1877; MA 1881; ordained deacon 8 Jun 1879, priest 23 May 1880 (both Chichester); Curate, Westbourne, Sussex, 1879-84; Rector and Vicar of Westbourne, Sussex, from 3 Feb 1884; Prebendary of Chichester from 1930; d. 19 Aug 1931.