George Birkbeck was a doctor and academic. He was a pioneer of adult education in Glasgow and London - helping to establish the London Mechanics’ Institute in 1823. The Institute was renamed the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution; in 1920 it became a constituent college of the University of London.
Correspondence of George Birkbeck
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- Dates of Creation1830
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