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Birkbeck
/ ˈbɜːkˌbɛk /
noun
- BirkbeckGeorge17761841MBritishEDUCATION: educationalist George . 1776–1841, British educationalist, who helped to establish vocational training for working men: founder and first president of the London Mechanics Institute (1824), which later became Birkbeck College
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Birkbeck does not mention the Cumberland Road, though it is drawn on the map accompanying his book.
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One night I was privileged to meet her and bring her home from an entertainment at the Birkbeck Institute.
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Birkbeck's Letters, printed for Ridgway, 1819, second edition.
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Mr. Henry Birkbeck presided, and it was asserted that the society was non-political.
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It is not difficult to sympathise with what Dr. Birkbeck aimed at in founding the College which bears his name.
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