About Walter de Gray Birch
Lived 1842 – 1924 (aged 81–82). Walter de Gray Birch was a British archaeologist, writer, linguist and historian.
Walter de Gray Birch (1 Jan 1842 – 8 March 1924) He was educated in Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and started work as curator of western manuscripts in the British Museum in 1864, age 22, transcribing and cataloguing Anglo-Saxon charters.
Career Birch was a prolific author whilst in his position as curator of western manuscripts at the British Museum. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Member of the Royal Academies of Seville and Turin and honourable member of the Hispanic Society of America. He held the positions of Honourable Secretary, Editor, vice-president, and Treasurer for many years of the British Archaeological Association.
During his tenure at the British Museum he transcribed and published most of the surviving Anglo Saxon Charters as the Cartularium Saxonicum in three volumes between 1885 and 1893, plus an index to named persons in 1899.
In 1902 he left the British Museum to become personal librarian and curator to the 4th Marquess of Bute.
Death Birch died in Monte Carlo on 8 March 1924.
Notable works His large output includes:
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British Anglo-Saxon academic (1842–1924)
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Walter de Gray Birch was born in 1842 in Kentish Town.
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Walter de Gray Birch died on 8 March 1924 in Monte Carlo.
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Walter de Gray Birch was an archaeologist, writer, linguist and historian.
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