| Peter Birch | |||||||||||
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| Emmerdale character | |||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Philip Bird | ||||||||||
| Introduced by | Kathleen Beedles (2006) Anita Turner (2008) |
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| Duration | 2006, 2008 | ||||||||||
| First appearance | 13 October 2006 | ||||||||||
| Last appearance | 3 November 2008 | ||||||||||
| Classification | Former; recurring | ||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 17 May | ||||||||||
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Peter Birch is Lily Butterfield's son. He appeared in 2006 and 2008.
For most of his life in believed he was the son of Edna Birch. However, in October 2006 he learns that Edna is his aunt and his mother is Lily Butterfield. When he was born, Lily was single and incapable of taking care of him so Edna and her husband Harold brought him up. Edna is forced to tell him the truth when she is blackmailed by Tom King. Peter takes this very badly and has no contact with Edna afterwards.
In September 2008, Peter reappears to secretly see Lily - without Edna's knowledge. He tells Lily that he is badly in debt, but Lily is unable to help. However, weeks later she and her colleagues win a car worth £15,000. Her offers Peter her share, £3000, but he makes her feel guilty and reluctantly gives Peter the ticket so he can claim the full £15,000. The missing ticket is soon noticed, and eventually Lily confesses to Edna what happened. Edna then asks Peter to return the money, but he refuses, so Edna takes the money out of her own savings so Lily can pay her colleagues back. She does not tell Lily that the money was hers, not Peter's - although she does not later find out.
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Famous quotes containing the words peter and/or birch:
“That matches are made in heaven, may be, but my wife would have been just the wife for Peter the Great, or Peter Piper. How would she have set in order that huge littered empire of the one, and with indefatigable painstaking picked the peck of pickled peppers for the other.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The birch stripped of its bark, or the charred stump where a tree has been burned down to be made into a canoe,—these are the only traces of man, a fabulous wild man to us. On either side, the primeval forest stretches away uninterrupted to Canada, or to the “South Sea”; to the white man a drear and howling wilderness, but to the Indian a home, adapted to his nature, and cheerful as the smile of the Great Spirit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)