Harold Birch

Harold Birch was Edna Birch's husband and Lawrence White's lover.

Harold marries Edna Birch and together they raise Edna's sister Lily Butterfield's son Peter Birch as their own, as Lily was incapable of looking after Peter herself. Harold embarks on an affair with his friend Lawrence White, but when Edna discovers their affair, she phones the police, as being gay was illegal at the time. Harold is released without charge as he is a respectable married man, but Lawrence is sent to prison. Harold tells Edna that Lawrence had hung himself in his prison cell, which Edna believes until she met Lawrence in 2014.