appearance was in April 1690; he died at home on 10 May 1691, and was buried at St Peter and St Paul's, Weobley. The railings around his monument extended into the altar space, and were removed in 1694 by Gilbert Ironside, Bishop of Hereford; the holes are still visible. His youngest daughter, Sarah, inherited Garnstone, on condition she marry her cousin, another John Birch; he held the Weobley seat almost continuously from 1701, until his death in 1735. Notes References Sources Bibliography External links John Webb. Military memoir of John Birch Brief history of the Life of John Birch (up to the start of his political career) Biography on British Civil Wars site Battle of Cropredy Bridge House of Commons Journal for 22 December 1645 recording the arrival of news of the capture of Hereford References to Col Birch in The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1615 births 1691 deaths English army officers Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall English MPs 1640–1648 English MPs 1654–1655 English MPs 1656–1658 English MPs 1659 English MPs 1660 English MPs 1661–1679 English MPs 1679 English MPs 1680–1681 English MPs 1681 English MPs 1689–1690 English MPs 1690–1695 17th-century English military personnel English Presbyterians of the Interregnum (England) Parliamentarian military personnel of the English Civil War Military personnel from Manchester