Albert Edgar Birch (born 11 August 1868) was an English

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er. He played for

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. He was born in

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in East London but his date and place of death are uncertain. The cricket website

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states that he died on 6 November 1936 but does not give a place of death, whilst CricketArchive indicates he died on 11 August 1958 at

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. A third source, the UK probate register, states that he died at St Helens Hospital, Hastings, on 1 December 1958.Albert Birch

. Retrieved 2024-02-13.Albert Birch
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-03-27.National Probate Calendar 1858-1966, accessed through www.ancestry.co.uk. Year = 1959; Page = 436 Birch made two appearances for the Kent Second XI in 1893 and his only

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appearance the following year for the team against MCC at

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scoring three runs. He appeared once more for Kent Second XI in 1920 in the

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.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 61–62.
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. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Birch, Albert 1868 births 1958 deaths English cricketers Kent cricketers