Yet another ancestor with a fighting spirit: Mr. Bircham, the Local Government Inspector, attended the Board of Guardians [in South Wales], and in his address he remarked that some of the Guardians did not converse in English. At the conclusion of the address Mr. Jenkins got up and stated that the members alluded to were a little timid with their English for fear of making mistakes, but that he, Jenkins, hoped that when another Bircham would be appointed, he would be a Welsh Bircham. #Genealogy