see Francis Place's Autobiography ed. Mary Thale p 42. (rival school to Place's schoolmaster John Bowis)
John Rule will PCC 22.11.1775 Stepney
William Bird schoolmaster 59 Fetter Lane & James Fergusson & Thomas Swanson Tower St, Wapping, executors of John Rule, SunFire 1779, 1780, 1786
William Bird Fetter Lane broker Wakefields directory 1790
William Bird 3 Bond Stables, Fetter Lane, academy Holdens directory 1790