William John Butterworth Bird

  General Notes:

William J B Bird born: abt 1853 in India. Rel to Head of Household: Nephew. Living in Clifton, Gloucestershire (1861 Census England)

The Times (London) Thursday, Jan 20, 1876.
On the 18th Dec., 1875 at Agra, by the Rev. M. Lamert, William J. B. Bird, Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, son of Edward Bird, Esq., late Madras Civil Service, to Marion Augusta, eldest daughter of Alexander Christison, M.D., Bengal Army, Civil Surgeon, Agra.

The London Gazette, February 15, 1898.
Indian Staff Corps.
Majors to be Lieutenant-Colonels. Dated 15th December, 1897.
William John Butterworth Bird.

William was a Colonel in the Indian Army.

  Research Notes:

source: & Dr C S Knighton, Editor of the Clifton College Register
who notes:
Was glad to find details of this man on your website. He attended Clifton College, Bristol UK from 1864 (Michaelmas Term) to 1867 (Christmas Term) before going on to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. His brothers Walter Montagu (1854-1936) and Francis Trevor (1850-9) followed him to the school, which had been founded in 1862.

  Noted events in his life were:

• connection.

William married Marion Augusta Christison, daughter of Alexander Christison and Jemima Ann Cowley Brown, on 18 Dec 1875 in Agra, Uttar Pradesh India. (Marion Augusta Christison was born on 1 Jul 1855 in India and died on 6 Dec 1912 in 108 Philbeach Gardens, S.W. England.)

William next married Elizabeth Liddle. (Elizabeth Liddle was born circa 1860.)