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Name	Gustavus John Birch
Born	13 February, 1820 London, Middlesex, England
Died	10 January, 1883 (aged 62) Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	cancer (jaw)
Cultural Heritage	English Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Birch, John Anthony (brother) Abbott, Elizabeth (sister-in-law)
Education *	Sydney College (student, 1837-1837)
Occupation or Descriptor *	court/law officer (1845-1860) Queensland, Australia naturalist (1850-1883) Queensland, Australia

* Dates are approximate

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