, Heir to Barton House and other family holdings in Warcs., Suffolk and Essex. Partner in Bird, Savage and Bird - London merchant banking house. Principal London house in the Carolina rice trade. Bird, Savage & Bird became the main London house dealing in American securities, placing in Britain several million dollars of the domestic debt of the United States in 1791, but failed in its bid to become paying agent for the Bank of the United States in 1793. See https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-05-02-0024 Letters between GW and HWB To George Washington from Henry Merttins Bird, 23 January 1790 From Henry Merttins Bird etc