Samuel Birch
1813–85
Egyptologist and archaeologist. Assistant in the department of antiquities in the British Museum, 1836; assistant keeper, 1844; keeper of the oriental, British, and medieval antiquities, 1861; keeper of oriental antiquities, 1866. Translator of classical Chinese and Egyptian texts.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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