Birkbeck, George, M.D., a Yorkshireman, a zealous promoter all over the country of mechanics' institutes, was founder of the London Institute, in consociation with Brougham and others interested in the diffusion of useful knowledge (1776-1841).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Biren, Duke of Courland * Birkenhead