Collector of botanical specimens. Born Thomas Birch, taking his name on succeeding to the estate of Wood Hall in Arkesden, Essex, which had belonged to John Lewis Wolfe. (M. Muriel Whiting, ‘Note on the Thomas Birch Wolfe Collection’, Transactions of the Suffolk Naturalists' Society [online], vol. 10, no. 3, 1956, <https://issuu.com/suffolknaturalistssociety/docs/tsns10_3_q> accessed 4 August 2021, 246-47.)
Thomas Birch Wolfe
1801 - 1880
This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.
Biographical notes
Slavery connections
No known connections with slavery.
Abolition connections
No known connections with abolition.
National Gallery painting connections
Donor: presented in 1877: NG1030 (now at Tate, N01030); presented in 1878: NG1044, NG2223–2229 (all now at Tate, N01044, N02223–02229).
Bibliography
History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://www.oxforddnb.com/
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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