BIRD, REV. JOHN. _b._ Betchworth, Surrey 14 Sep. 1783; ed. at Stonyhurst college; ordained priest 10 Dec. 1808; professed of the 4 vows 2 Feb. 1819; rector of St. Aloysius’ college 26 June 1832 to 18 May 1839 and 15 Sep. 1841; missioner at Pontefract 1842–48; superior of St. George’s Residence, Worcester Nov. 1850 to death. _d._ 8 June 1853. BIRD, LOUIS SAUNDERS. Ensign Bengal Infantry 26 Nov. 1808; col. 23 Bengal N.I. 17 April 1856–1869; L.G. 22 Feb. 1870. _d._ Clevedon, Somerset 17 April 1874 aged 81. BIRD, ROBERT MERTTINS. _b._ 1788; Bengal civil servant; assistant to registrar of Court of Sadr Diwàni Adàlat at Calcutta 9 Nov. 1808; comr. of revenue and circuit for the Gorakhpur division 1829; member of board of revenue at Allahabad 1832; revised settlement of land revenue of North western provinces 1833–41, the most complete settlement that had yet been made in India; retired to England 1842; active member of committee of the Church Missionary Society. _d._ Torquay 22 Aug. 1853. _Dict. of nat. biog. v_, 78 (1886). BIRD, ROBERT NICHOLAS. Ensign 20 Foot 30 Aug. 1859; lieut. 2 Dec. 1862 to death; murdered by Japanese at Kamahura about 17 miles from Yokohama 21 Nov. 1864. _R. Lindau’s Erzählungen und Novellen i_, 15–54 (1871); _F. O. Adams’s History of Japan i_, 485–98 (1874), _ii_, 1–5 (1875). BIRD, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE (_eld. son of Wm. Wilberforce Bird of the Spring, Kenilworth, M.P. for Coventry_). _b._ 1784; ed. at Warwick and Geneva; writer in H.E.I. Co.’s civil service at Calcutta 11 July 1803; third ordinary member of council of India 21 March 1838; senior member of board of customs salt and opium and of the marine board 17 Sep. 1838; deputy governor of Bengal 4 times; pres. of the council 1840–44; governor general of India 15 June 1844 to 23 July 1844; very instrumental in abolition of suttee and suppression of slavery; retired to England 1844. _d._ 22 Sussex sq. Hyde Park, London 1 June 1857. BIRDWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ 1806; ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 3 May 1825; commissariat officer of Malwa field force 1839–41; colonel Bombay staff corps 9 Nov. 1868; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Pucklechurch near Bristol 4 July 1882 in 76 year. _Graphic xxvi_, 221 (1882), _portrait_. BIRKETT, REV. GEORGE WILLIAM. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827; V. of St. Florence near Tenby 1829 to death; author of _The trial of creation and other poems_ 1848. _d._ Tenby 26 Nov. 1877 aged 78.