Son of Thomas Bird, was born at Muswell Hill in 1827. Studied at Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, where he obtained a number of medals and certificates and became House Surgeon; was afterwards House Surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital; he studied finally in Paris. He gained the Jacksonian Prize in 1849 for his Essay on “The Nature and Treatment of Erysipelas”. The MS of the Essay is in the College Library, and he published a revision of it in the *Midland Quarterly Journal of Medical Science* in 1857. He also translated Eugène Bouchut’s *Traité pratique des Nouveau-Nés* from the third edition in 1855. For some time he was Medical Officer on board the *Dreadnought* Hospital Ship moored in the Thames off Greenwich. He was next appointed Medical Officer of Health for the district in Lancashire around Blackpool, during which appointment he issued a number of publications relating to Public Health: “Costless Ventilation” described in the *Builder* of March 1st, 1862, and published in 1876; *Hints on Drains* in 1877; *On Ventilation* in 1879, etc. He returned to London and began to practise in Kensington. He was for a time Surgeon to St John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, and an active Medical Officer of Volunteers. In 1882 he went for a time to Cyprus, returning to practise in Chelsea until 1890. In the autumn of this year he went to San Remo to escape the winter, and died there on January 31st, 1891. He left two sons, one then a student at St Mary’s Hospital. A photograph of him is in the Fellows’ Album. In addition to the works already mentioned Bird also wrote:- Publication:- *On the Nature, Causes and Statistics and Treatment of Erysipelas*, 8vo, London, 1857, 2nd ed., 1858.