Arthur Nonus Birch

Arthur Nonus Birch (1836-1914) was Lieutenant Governor of Ceylon, Colonial Secretary for Ceylon and acting Lieutenant Governor of Penang and Province Wellesley (1871-1872).

The son of H.W.R. Birch, he joined the colonial service as clerk in the Office of the Secretary of State for the Colonies in February 1855, served as Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's assistant private secretary in 1858, and Chichester Fortescue's private secretary from September 1859 to February 1864 when he accepted the post of colonial secretary of British Columbia. He served in that capacity and for a time as administrator of the government until 1866 when he returned to England to resume his duties in the Colonial Office. He remained with the Colonial Office, serving as acting Lieutenant Governor of Penang and Province Wellesley, colonial secretary of Ceylon and Lieutenant Governor of Ceylon, until his retirement from the service in June 1878. After his resignation from the Colonial Office Birch joined the Bank of England where he remained until retirement in 1913. [The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of Knights Bachelors. Incorporating a Complete List of Knights Bachelors Dubbed in Ireland By William Arthur Shaw Published by Genealogical Publishing Com, 1971; ISBN 080630443X, ISBN 9780806304434; p. 369] [Ceylon in 1893: Describing the Progress of the Island Since 1803, Its Present Agricultural and Commercial Enterprises, and Its Unequalled Attractions to Visitors, with Useful Statistical Information, Specially Prepared Map, and Upwards of One Hundred Illustrations By John Ferguson Published by John Haddon & Co., Salisbury Square, Fleet St. Colombo: A.M. & J. Ferguson, Observer Press, 1893; pp. 206, 232, 413] [Events Prior to British Ascendancy ...: Notes on Perak History ... By Richard James Wilkinson Published by Printed by J. Russell at the F.M.S. gov't press, 1908; Item notes: v.1-5 (1908-1911); p. 75] [Papers on Malay Subjects By Peter L. Burns, Richard James Wilkinson Compiled by Peter L. Burns Contributor Peter L. Burns, Richard James Wilkinson Published by Oxford University Press, 1971; p. 134] [Later Letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue: To Chichester Fortescue (Lord Carlingford), Lady Waldegrave, and Others By Edward Lear Published by Ayer Publishing, 1977; ISBN 0836966171, ISBN 9780836966176; p. 154] [Appointments, Preferments and Promotions. Civil, Naval and Military. Whitehall, Feb 3. in The Gentleman's Magazine Published by [s.n.] , 1864; Item notes: v.216 1864 Jan-Jun; p. 375] [British Intervention in Malaya, 1867-1877 By Cyril Northcote Parkinson; Published by University of Malaya Press, 1960; p. 47] [Gentlemen Emigrants: From the British Public Schools to the Canadian Frontier By Patrick Alexander Dunae Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 1981; p. 40] [he Imperial Frontier in the Tropics, 1865-75: A Study of British Colonial Policy in West Africa, Malaya and the South Pacific in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli By William David McIntyre Published by St. Martin's P., 1967] [Nineteenth-century Malaya: The Origins of British Political Control By Charles Donald Cowan Published by Oxford University Press, 1961; p. 85, 101] [Christian Cemeteries of Penang & Perak By A. G. Harfield Published by Published for the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, 1987; ISBN 0907799183, ISBN 9780907799184; p. 79]

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*Correspondence Between the Governor of British Columbia and the Treasurer of Vancouver Island on the Subject of the Abolition of the Office of Treasurer, 1866-1867 By Birch, Arthur N. (Arthur Nonus), 1837-1914, Frederick Seymour, Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869, Alexander Watson, Arthur Nonus Birch Published by s.n, 1867; ISBN 0665143494, ISBN 9780665143496