Edward Wheler Bird (16 April 1823[1] – 21 May 1903) was a British civil servant in the Indian Civil Service.
He was born in Trichinopoly, British India,[2] in 1823, the son of John Bird, a provincial judge,[3] and Mary.[4] He returned to London for schooling and is listed in London's University College School's alumni as having attended from '32-38 and being "a great Tamil scholar."[5] He went back to India for a career in the Madras Civil Service and is listed as having been "special assistant to collector and magistrate, Masulipatam."[6][non-primary source needed]
Bird became active in the British Israelite Movement in 1874, after having read a book by John Wilson.[3] He helped found the Anglo-Israel Association, which merged with the Anglo-Ephraim Association in 1878. Bird became president of the newly formed Metropolitan Anglo-Israel Association.[7]: 209 He oversaw an excavation of the Hill of Tara that caused irreparable damage in the early years of the 20th century.[citation needed]
^ abcKatz, David S. (2001). "Chapter 5: Israel in America: The Wanderings of the Lost Ten Tribes from Mikveigh Yisrael to Timothy McVeigh". In Fiering, Norman; Bernardini, Paolo (eds.). The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450 to 1800. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. p. 114. ISBN1-57181-153-2. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
^University College School (1892). Alphabetical and Chronological Register for 1831-1891. London: H. Walton Lawrence. p. 63. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
^East-India Register and Army List. W.H. Allen & Co. 1853. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
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