Colonel John Birch was an English soldier and politician from Manchester, who fought for the Parliamentarian cause in the First English Civil War, and sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1646 and 1691.
John Birch's monument, St Peter & St Paul's, Weobley
Goodrich Castle, captured by Birch in June 1646, one of the last major actions of the First English Civil War
Samuel Pepys, who worked closely with Birch on funding the Royal Navy
Leominster (UK Parliament constituency)
Leominster was a parliamentary constituency represented until 1707 in the House of Commons of England, then until 1801 in that of Great Britain, and finally until 2010, when it disappeared in boundary changes, in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
James Rankin
Image: Edmund Lamb