James Bird

James Bird (10 November 1788 – 26 March 1839) was an English poetical writer and dramatist.

Life James Bird was born on 10 November 1788 at Earls Stonham, Suffolk, the eighth of nine children born to Samuel Bird, a local farmer, by his wife, Anne, née Wink. of whom the eldest, George Hardacre Bird, became a surgeon of London and married Mary Ann, youngest daughter of the poetical writer Edwin Atherstone. Late in life he began with much success the study of Greek. After Bird‘s death, his friend Thomas Harral, in 1840, published with a memoir selections from his poems. His portrait, painted by James Pardon in 1826, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1829.