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Charles Smith Bird (1795–1862) was an English academic, cleric and tutor, known as a theological author and writer of devotional verse, and described as a High Church Evangelical.

Tractarianism.[2]

Charles Smith Bird

Life

His father was William Bird (died 1814), a West Indies merchant;

Shakespeare. Charles Smith Bird was the fifth of six children, born in Union Street, Liverpool, 28 May 1795. After attending private schools, he was articled to a firm of conveyancing solicitors at Liverpool in 1812.[4]

Bird went back in 1815 to

Macclesfield grammar school, under David Davies (1755–1828).[5] He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a scholar in 1818. He was third Wrangler in 1820, was awarded a Smith's Prize behind Henry Coddington, and elected a Fellow of his college.[3][4][6]

Bird was then ordained and became curate of

Thomas Babington Macaulay who joined a reading party at Llanrwst in 1821.[4][7]

In 1840 Bird became a sort of part-time curate to Rev. Alan Briscoe (died 1845)

parable of the sower.[4]

In 1849 cholera ravaged Gainsborough, and Bird ministered to his parishioners. In 1852 Bird suffered himself a severe illness. In 1859 he was appointed chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, and left Gainsborough. He died at the Chancery, aged 67, and was buried in the churchyard at Riseholme. A painted window to his memory was added to Gainsborough Church.[4]

Works

Bird sent contributions to the Christian Observer. Against the Irish educational measures for Catholics, he wrote Call to the Protestants of England, later inserted among his poems. For Ever, and other Devotional Poems appeared in 1833.[4]

In 1839 Bird edited a monthly periodical of his own, the Reading Church Guardian, which lasted for a year. The proposal for the admission of Jews into parliament aroused Bird's indignation. His Call to Britain to remember the Fate of Jerusalem is one of his longer poems.[4] An autobiography in the third person, Sketches from the life of the Rev. —, appeared posthumously in 1864.[9]

The views Bird held were related to those of

Gate-Burton, Alfred Ollivant, and the Rev. Joseph Jones of Repton.[4] As an opponent of the Tractarians, he wrote:[4]

Other works were:[4]

  • The Parable of the Sower, four Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge in May 1845.
  • The Dangers attending an immediate Revival of Convocation detailed in a letter to the Rev. G. Hutton, rector of Gate-Burton, 1852.
  • The Sacramental and Priestly System examined; or Strictures on Archdeacon Wilberforce's Works on the Incarnation and Eucharist, 1854. Against Robert Wilberforce, whose The Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist (1853) Bird criticised, with reference to the views of Edward Reynolds.[14]
  • The Eve of the Crucifixion, 1858.
Illustration of the moth Lepidocera birdella, now called Ochsenheimeria taurella

Bird was also an entomologist, and became a fellow of the

Lepidocera birdella was named for him by John Curtis.[4][15]

Family

On 24 June 1823 Bird married Margaret Wrangham, of

Bowdon, Cheshire.[4] Three sons (William, Claude Smith, and Charles James) were Cambridge graduates, all going into the church.[3][16] A daughter married H. C. Barker, who had been Bird's curate, in 1849.[17] Claude Smith Bird published Sketches from the Life of the Rev. Charles Smith Bird (1864).[18]

Notes

  1. ISBN 978-0-521-58719-8
    . Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-551-05582-0
    .
  3. ^ a b c "Bird, Charles Smith (BRT815CS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Bird, Charles Smith" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  5. ^ Rees, James Frederick (1959). "Davies, David (1741–1819)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
  6. ^ Edmund Burke (1822). Annual Register. p. 636. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  7. ^ Charles Smith BIRD (1864). Sketches from the life of the Rev. —. James Nisbet and Company. p. 71. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  8. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine July 1845, p. 91;archive.org.
  9. ^ Charles Smith Bird (1864). Sketches from the life of the Rev. —. James Nisbet and Company. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  10. ISBN 978-0-521-58719-8
    . Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  11. ISBN 978-0-8108-6280-7
    . Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  12. ISBN 978-0-19-957733-0
    . Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  13. ^ Frederick Oakeley; Charles Smith Bird (1842). Explanation of a Passage in an Article on Certain Works of Bishop Jewel, Published in the British Critic for July, 1841, in a Letter to the Rev. C. S. Bird. J.G.F.& J.Rivington. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  14. ISBN 0-551-05582-0
    .
  15. ^ Henry Noel Humphreys; John Obadiah Westwood (1845). British moths and their transformations, arranged in a ser. of plates, with characters and descr. by J.O. Westwood. p. 248. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  16. ^ "Bird, William (BRT844W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  17. ^ Charles Smith Bird (1864). Sketches from the life of the Rev. ---. James Nisbet and Company. p. 263. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  18. ^ Claude Smith Bird; Charles Smith Bird (1864). Sketches from the Life of the Rev. Charles Smith Bird. [Including Letters and Portions of an Autobiography. With a Portrait.]. London. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Bird, Charles Smith". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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