the Reverend Thomas Birch, D. D. Secret. R. S." had been communicated to Philosophical Transactions in 1753. He was the author of portions of George Sale's Universal History. "The Travels of three English Gentlemen, from Venice to Hamburgh" appeared in The Harleian Miscellany, Oxford, 1734. References Attribution 1703 births 1777 deaths 18th-century English Anglican priests Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford Fellows of the Royal Society Keepers of the Archives of the University of Oxford