Some time Honorary Secretary of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society and wrote reports to the journals of the Society’s meetings. Some of these record that he showed Coleoptera. He is listed in the Naturalists Directory, 1904-5 at 23 Orford Street, Wavertree, Liverpool, and gives his interests as Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. Presumably this is the Fred Birch whose name appears on specimens in Doncaster Museum’s general collection. (MD 10/01)