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	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Ge-George C) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		George Abbott was renowned for his cruelty, while vice chancellor of Oxford University he had 140 undergraduates imprisoned for failing to remove their hats in his presence, and as a member of the High Commission Court he had preachers and heretics flogged, pillaried, mutilated and imprisoned for speaking out of turn.
		George Blake (born George Behar) was a Dutch-born British KGB spy.
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	George Birkbeck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Birkbeck (1776-1841) was a doctor, academic, philanthropist and early pioneer in adult education.
		Born to a Quaker family in Settle, North Yorkshire, Birkbeck went to school in Sedbergh and then completed his training as a doctor in Edinburgh in 1799.
		The Mechanics Institute concept was quickly adopted in numerous other cities and towns across the UK and overseas, but his association with the ground-breaking London institution was marked by it being renamed the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution in 1866 (now, as Birkbeck College, part of the University of London).
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	Birkbeck, University of London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Birkbeck, sometimes referred to by its former name Birkbeck College or by the abbreviation BBK, is a College of the University of London.
		The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities was established in 2004, with the renowned but controversial Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek appointed as International Director.
		Birkbeck's School of English and Humanities was rated 5* in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, as were the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, and the section for Spanish and Latin American studies within the School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture -- ranking these departments with, and in some cases above, Oxford and Cambridge.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birkbeck_College (460 words)

	George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Birkbeck Norman Hill (June 11, 1835 - February 27, 1904), English author, son of Arthur Hill, head master of Bruce Castle school, was born at Tottenham, Middlesex.
		George Birkbeck Hill was educated in his father's school and at Pembroke College, Oxford.
		In 1858 he began to teach at Bruce Castle school, an from 1868 to 1877 was head master.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Birkbeck_Norman_Hill (333 words)

	George Birkbeck and the London Mechanics Institute
		George Birkbeck (1776-1841) trained as a doctor - completing his studies in 1799.
		Birkbeck who by this time worked in London as a physician, offered his help and, with the assistance of Francis Place they set about raising money and interest.
		George Birkbeck looked to the Institutes as means of liberating the mind, for others the key slogan was self improvement - which often was just another way of describing the gaining of particular skills for work.
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	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Virtual fair \| School report - Birkbeck, University of London
		Birkbeck was the brainchild of George Birkbeck, the son of a Quaker, who launched London's first ever mechanics' institution, dedicated to the education of working people in 1823.
		Birkbeck was also one of the first higher educational institutions to appoint women teaching staff from its early days.
		The diversity of disciplines studied at Birkbeck embraces the physical, social, political and economic sciences as well as the arts and humanities.Birkbeck's MPhil/PhD in occupational psychology offered by its Department of Organisational Psychology is the only specialist department of its kind in the UK with a long-standing track record of high achievement.
	education.guardian.co.uk /virtualfairs/story/0,12854,962489,00.html (341 words)

	CUTTLER Descendants of Grace - pafg06.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		George Henry CUTTLER was born in 1875 in Queensland, Australia.
		George Henry BIRKBECK was born on 7 Feb 1873 in Queensland, Australia.
		George was born on 7 Apr 1894 in Maryborough, Qld.
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	GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN HILL - LoveToKnow Article on GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN HILL
		George Birkbed Hill was educated in his fathers school and at Pen~roke College Oxford.
		In 1858 he began to teach at Bruce Castle school, an from f868 to 1S77 was head master.
		See a memoir by his nephew, Harold Spencer Scott, in the edition ofthe Lives of the English Poets (~905), and the Letters edited by his daughter, Lucy Crump, in f903.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HI/HILL_GEORGE_BIRKBECK_NORMAN.htm (263 words)

	Boewe, Charles: Prairie Albion
		The founders, Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, as well as their associates and the many visitors to their prairie settlement, wrote mainly for immediate and sometimes controversial ends.
		Birkbeck, whose publications, and the authority of whose name, had effects truly prodigious,' was the exaggerated estimate of William Faux, an English traveler and recorder of impressions gained from an American journey in 1819.
		This is but one of the many sprightly observations with which the commentator-editor-collector, Charles Boewe, enlivens his account as he describes the ambitious attempt by Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, themselves successful English farmers, to establish a settlement of farmers and artisans in a kind of 'Prairie Albion' on the Illinois frontier after 1817.
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	§20. Mechanics’ institutes. XIV. Education. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge History of ...
		The rapid increase in number, throughout Great Britain, of Mechanics’ institutions confirms the statement of contemporary observers that there was a widespread desire among urban populations for instruction.
		Birkbeck, who was professor of natural philosophy at the Andersonian institution, Glasgow, from 1799 to 1804, opened, in 1800, a free course of Saturday evening lectures to artisans, intended to familiarise them with some of the scientific principles underlying the employment of tools and machinery.
		In the meantime, he was practising medicine in London, where he had become a member of the circle which included George Grote, Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, Joseph Hume, David Ricardo, John Cam Hobhouse, Sir Francis Burdett, Francis Place, Brougham and others whose political principles ranged them with the philosophical radicals.
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	January 10th
		Here Birkbeck found great difficulty in getting apparatus made for a course of lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy; and this suggested to him the establishment of popular lectures to working men, with a view to the spread of knowledge in various matters relating to the application of science to the practical arts.
		Birkbeck married, came to London, and settled down as a physician.
		Moreover, he was said to have spoken on several occasions disrespectfully of the Scottish nation, and in particular of Sir George Dunbar, the Lord Treasurer of Scotland, and of the Earl of Dunfermline, its Chancellor.
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	AllRefer.com - George Birkbeck (Education, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He established (1800–1804) in Glasgow a popular course of lectures for workingmen, which led to the founding of the Glasgow Mechanics' Institution in 1823.
		Birkbeck Laboratory at University College was established by gifts from his pupils.
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	George Birkbeck -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		George Birkbeck (1776-1841) was a (A licensed medical practitioner) doctor, (An educator who works at a college or university) academic, (Someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being) philanthropist and early pioneer in (A course (via lectures or correspondence) for adults who are not otherwise engaged in formal study) adult education.
		He also helped create the first (The science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions) chemistry (A workplace for the conduct of scientific research) laboratory for undergraduates at (Click link for more info and facts about University College London) University College London.
		A monument is also to be found in St Akelda?s church in Giggleswick, near his birthplace in Settle.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/george_birkbeck.htm (209 words)

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		George Washington was four years old when the first newspaper was published in the colony, and he was twenty when the first actors appeared at Williamsburg.
		Washington's chief desire naturally was to put George in the way of earning a living, which no doubt seemed far more important than getting an education, and, as he was a sober-minded boy, the same idea was probably profoundly impressed on his own mind also.
		It was in March, 1748, that George Fairfax and Washington set forth on their adventures, and passing through Ashby's Gap in the Blue Ridge, entered the valley of Virginia.
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	AIM25: Birkbeck College: Birkbeck College Archives
		Administrative/Biographical history: Birkbeck College was founded as the London Mechanics Institution in 1823 with George Birkbeck (1776-1841) as the first President and the aim of instructing members "in the principles of the Arts they practise, and in the various branches of science and useful Knowledge".
		In 1894 Birkbeck Institute was linked with the City of London College and the Northampton Institute (now City University) to form the City Polytechnic under a Charity Commission scheme approved in 1891 to facilitate funding for these institutions by the City Parochial Foundation.
		The City Polytechnic was dissolved in 1906 and Birkbeck College made its first application to become part of the University of London in 1907; it had had recognised teachers, and therefore "internal" students, since 1900.
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	Birkbeck - Flower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Biographical Notes: Morris Birkbeck (1764-1825) was born in England, but emigrated to America in 1818 and settled in Illinois.
		George Flower (1788-1862), born in England, emigrated to America with Morris Birkbeck determined to establish a settlement which became Albion (Edwards County) Illinois in 1818.
		George Flower was also an author, a pioneer and abolitionist.
	library.knox.edu /sca/manuscripts/birkbeck-flower.html (158 words)

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		WALPOLE, Horace, _Journal of the Reign of King George III_, 2 vols., London, 1859; _Letters_, 9 vols., London, 1861; _Memoirs of the Reign of George II_, 3 vols., London, 1846; _Memoirs of the Reign of King George III_, 4 vols., London, 1845.
		Johnson wrote four letters to George Strahan, when he was a boy at school, and one letter when he was at College.
		George Parker of the Bodleian Library informs me that William Vachell had been tutor to Prince Esterhazy, and that for many years he held the appointment of 'Pumper,' or Lessee of the baths at Bath.
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	Birkbeck College, Part of the Renowned University of London, Is a Unique Launching Pad for New Literary Talent
		Birkbeck College, rated the highest grade attainable, a 6*, from the UK Research Assessment Exercise, is now a training ground for some of the UK and USA's most promising literary talent, including Xiao En, author of The Empire Menaced.
		The Birkbeck School of English and Humanities recently received the prestigious 6* ranking from the UK Research Assessment Exercise, the highest grade attainable, putting it in a class with Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
		Xiao En, a Birkbeck MA graduate and author of _The Empire Menaced: the unauthorized autobiography of Dearth Nadir_, his second novel, said, “I wanted to study at Birkbeck because of its excellent reputation and the quality of teaching.
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	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1800 George Birkbeck, in Glasgow, had the germ of an idea for journeymen mechanics.
		Early in 1827 the master tradesmen of Hobart took steps to organize the Van Diemen's Land Mechanics' Institute, the objects of which were said to be "the protection of trade and the promotion of knowledge among its members.
		In Sydney, 1833 saw the establishment of a committee and it was decided to hold classes on various subjects four nights a week, to organize a series of lectures, and to establish a library.
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	thePeerage.com - Person Page 5426
		She married Edward Harold Birkbeck, son of Colonel Oliver Birkbeck and Lady Wilhelmina Joan Mary FitzClarence, on 11 June 1958.
		She is the daughter of Edward Harold Birkbeck and Sarah Ann Brook.
		George Birkbeck was born circa 8 December 1964.
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	George
		George was brought back to England by the Crusaders.
		Although it’s first recorded in 1199, George remained relatively rare in the English world until King George I took the throne in 1714.
		A grandson of King George III of Great Britain, he lost the English to his cousin, Victoria.
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	BIRKBECK COLLEGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There are nearly 19,000 students studying for short courses, certificates, diplomas, first degrees, postgraduate taught and postgraduate research degrees.
		Birkbeck provides Londoners with the unique opportunity to fit study around their busy lives.
		Founded in 1823 as the London Mechanics' Institute Birkbeck was incorporated into the University of London in 1920.
	www.jobs.ac.uk /profiles/Birkbeck/BB_prof_files/menu_welcome.htm (85 words)

	George Birkbeck Norman Hill -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Arthur Hill, with his brothers Rowland Hill, the postal reformer and (Click link for more info and facts about Matthew Davenport Hill) Matthew Davenport Hill, afterwards recorder of Birmingham had worked out a system of education which was to exclude compulsion of any kind.
		George Birkbeck Hill was educated in his father's school and at (Click link for more info and facts about Pembroke College, Oxford) Pembroke College, Oxford.
		This entry was originally from the (Click link for more info and facts about 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica) 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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	Chapter 12: The Mechanics Institute of North-East Ulster
		He was joined by George Birkbeck, who interacted constructively with instrument-making craftsmen, re-designing the courses to make them accessible to the mind-sets of working men.
		Birkbeck moved to London in 1804, and the concept took shape, the basic ideas being embodied in a book by Lord Brougham, which became the manual of the movement.
		The London University college founded by and named after Birkbeck remained a focus for radical thinking well into the present century, with JD Bernal and others.
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	Birkbeck Family Genealogy Forum
		Birkbecks died at sea 1874 - frank shiers 7/14/04
		Re: GRISSELL BIRKBECK - Jennifer Wright Birkbeck 3/04/02
		Re: John Birkbeck, 1930, Iowa - josi birkbeck 3/17/02
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	Sample from the Comic Annual
		George Birkbeck, George Bartley, George Combe, George H Robins, James Rennie, Joseph Addison, William Herschel, Christian F S Hahnemann
		She cannot understand the 'scientifics' of Lorenzo's letter of renunciation, which is also full of astronomical imagery.
		Lorenzo's letter recommends that she study the astronomical writings of George B Airy, James South, and John Pond before again attempting to write such fond sentiments.
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	George Alexander Otis -- George Eliot's Middlemarch: in Cornell University's Making of America
		George Bancroft's History of the United States, Vol.
		George Bancroft's Introduction to the Life of Baron Steuben.
		George Birkbeck Hill: Harvard College by an Oxonian.
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	George Birkbeck
		In 1799 Birkbeck became professor of natural philosophy at the college and began providing free classes for working-class men in mechanics and chemistry.
		In 1804 Birkbeck became a physician in London.
		This institution developed into Birkbeck College, a constituent college of London University.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /EDbirkbeck.htm (148 words)

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