Biography

Walter de Gray Birch (1842–1924) was an English historian, editor and author. He is best known for his Cartularium Saxonicum — A Collection of Charters Relating to Anglo-Saxon History, which supersede John Mitchell Kemble's Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici.

History

Birch worked in the British Museum Department of Manuscripts between 1864 and 1902, transcribing and cataloguing Anglo-Saxon charters.^[1]

Bibliography

His large output includes:

• John Mitchell Kemble. Walter de Gray Birch (ed.). The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth till the Period of the Norman Conquest. Vol. (2 vols).
• Walter de Gray Birch (ed.). Cartularium Saxonicum: A Collection of Charters Relating to Anglo-Saxon History. Vol. (3 vols).
• Walter de Gray Birch (1902). A History of Neath Abbey.
• Walter de Gray Birch. History of the Scottish Seals. Vol. (2 vols).
• Walter de Gray Birch. Domesday Book: A popular account of the Exchequer Manuscript so called. Vol. (2 vols).

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