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Beautiful Palace! Many a Birch has served for Her Majesty and the Monarchs!

Of note, recently Dame Violet Dickson, 65 years of service in Kuwait. Birch descendants have served in the Royal Navy, and Navy.

Maj. Gen John Francis BIRCH. C.B. Born August 20. 1776. He was a General, in the Royal Engineers, and lived at 5 Marine Parade. Folkestone. Kent, in 1855 and died in 1856. His will dated August 9. 1855 with a deposition made with an undated codicil on June 10. 1856. was proved at London June 19. 1856. His memorial in the churchyard at Crondall states that: he "served in Flanders and Holland 1793-5: Campaign in Egypt 1801; Taking of Copenhagen in 1807; Taking of Flushing 1809; Blockade of Cadiz 1810; and Battle of Barossa 1811." He married Clementina Hunter Blair, daughter of Sir James Hunter-Blair. Bart. She died June 19. 1846 age 66. Both are buried at All Saints Church Crondall in the parish of Crondall and Ewshot where large memorials are placed inside the church on the w alls on both sides of the altar.

Maria Lucy BIRCH. Born in 1772 and died in 1836. She married March 3. 1798 at Grantham. Lincolnshire, Lt. Col. Lewis Watson, of the 7th Queen's Own Light Dragoons. He was bom in 1776. the son of Thomas Watson of Caythorpe. Lincolnshire and Elizabeth Caroline Calcraft. He was severely wounded at the battle of Waterloo. June 18. 1815. and his daughter wrote a book about her family experiences in caring for him soon after the battle. He died April 12. 1842 at Leasingham of Typhoid Fever and battle wounds. The Watson family are buried at Syston Church. 3 miles north of Grantham.

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