Mr Edwin Birchall (1820–1885)

British lepidopterist. Member of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society and Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Society. Wrote a Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Ireland (1868) and "The rights of animals", Manx Sun, 22 (1880) A council member for proposed creation of Leeds Zoological and Botanical Gardens (1838). He was one of the founders and President of the Isle of Mann Natural History and Antiquarian Society, and in his house the first meeting was held on the 23rd December 1879.