The British Musical Biography

[E] Birch, Samuel, composer and minor poet,
was born at London, November 8, 1757. He
served as a Lord Mayor of London in 1815.
Died at London, December 10, 1841.

[W] Works. — Musical dramas, etc.: The Marin-
ers, 1793 ; Packet Boat, or a peep behind the
veil (a masque), 1794 ; Adopted child, 1795 ;
Smugglers, 1796 ; Fast asleep, 1795 ; Albert
and Adelaide, 1798. Glees, songs, etc. To
some of these musical dramas, Attwood and
others wrote the ixiusic.

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