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George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood

Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood KCIE CSI LH (8 December 1832 – 28 June 1917) also known as Sir George Birdwood was an Anglo-Indian official, naturalist, and writer. He served as the first Sheriff of Bombay from 1846 to 1858.

Sir
George Birdwood
KCIE CSI LH

position established

Bomonji Hormusji Wadia

George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood

8 December 1832
Belgaum, Bombay Presidency, British India

28 June 1917 (aged 85)
Ealing, London, United Kingdom

British Indian

Frances Anne Tolcher

Christopher Birdwood (father)
Lydia Juliana Taylor (mother)

Plymouth Grammar School
Edinburgh University

Naturalist, writer

Order of the Indian Empire
Order of the Star of India
Legion of Honour

The Economic Vegetable Products of the Bombay Presidency (12th edition, 1868)

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On the Genus Boswellia [Frankincense Trees] (1870)

The Industrial Arts of India (1888)

Reports on the Old Records of the India Office (1891)

The Register of Letters and of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies 1600-1619 (1893) with

Sir William Foster

First Letter Book of the East India Company (1895)

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Birdwood, Sir George Christopher Molesworth". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 979.

public domain

Rao, C. Hayavadana, ed. (1915). "Birdwood, Sir George Christopher Molesworth". The Indian Biographical Dictionary.

Cooper, Thompson, ed. (1884). "Birdwood, George Christopher Molesworth". Men of the Time (eleventh ed.).