Samuel Birch [Colonel Patty-Pan]

(1757-1841)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Birch, Samuel, 1757-1841 DNB: Birch, Samuel (1757-1841), politician, playwright, and pastrycook LBT ID: SaBirch1841 VIAF ID: 50582053 LOC ID: n82154708	B/BAP: 1757-11-08 DIED: 1841-12-10
SOURCES: Letters from an Irish student in England to his father in Ireland (1809); DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Pastry-cook, poet, politician, and author of the Adopted Child (1794). The lord mayor of London (1814), he is said to have stamped his buns with “No Popery.”