James Wheeler Woodford Birch
1826–75
Colonial official. Beginning in 1846, held posts in different districts of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), including that of writer, commissioner of requests, police magistrate, assistant government agent, and district judge. Colonial secretary, Singapore, 1870. British resident at the court of the Malay sultan of Perak. Assassinated in Perak, Malaya, in 1875.
Sources
Colonial office list 1868.
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 27 November 2019)
Gloucestershire, England, Church of England baptisms, 1813–1913 Gloucestershire Archives P154/3 IN 1/1 (Ancestry.com, accessed 27 November 2019)
Bibliography
Colonial Office list: The Colonial Office list … or, general register of the colonial dependencies of Great Britain. London: Edward Stanford; Harrison & Sons. 1862–99.
