Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Birch NPG D732

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Faber Jr, after James Wills

Born in Clerkenwell to Quaker parents, Thomas Birch took up a career in the Church of England, being baptized in December 1730 and ordained as a priest in December 1731. He became rector of Ulting, Essex in 1732, the first of several church appointments. Birch was elected a Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society in 1735, serving as secretary of the latter from 1752 to 1765. Birch wrote of most of the biographical entries in the General Dictionary, Historical and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.