John Birkbeck (6 July 1817 – 31 July 1890) was a Yorkshireman, banker, alpinist, and pioneer potholer. Born in Settle and educated at the local Giggleswick...
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Birkbeck, University of London (formally Birkbeck College, University of London), is a research university located in Bloomsbury, London, England, and...
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founder of Birkbeck, University of London John Birkbeck (1817–1890), Yorkshireman, banker, alpinist, and pioneer potholer Mike Birkbeck (born 1961),...
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George Birkbeck FRS (/ˈbɜːrkˌbɛk/; 10 January 1776 – 1 December 1841) was an English physician, academic, philanthropist, pioneer in adult education and...
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Zumtaugwald, Ulrich Lauener, Christopher and James Smyth, Charles Hudson, John Birkbeck and Edward Stephenson. The peak is distinguished by the name Dufourspitze...
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Baron Avebury in 1900) John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) John Birkbeck Lubbock, 2nd Baron Avebury (1858–1929) John Lubbock, 3rd Baron Avebury...
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George Birkbeck Norman Hill (7 June 1835 – 24 February 1903) was an English editor and author. He was the son of Arthur Hill, headmaster of Bruce Castle...
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Institutes; and of John Birkbeck (1817-1890), a Yorkshire banker, alpinist, and pioneer potholer. By 1794, as leaseholder, Birkbeck was farming an estate...
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without any respect to skill level. In the mid-nineteenth century, John Birkbeck explored potholes in England, notably Gaping Gill in 1842 and Alum Pot...
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Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. They had three children, John Birkbeck, Samuel Emmet, and Ellen Mudge. She died in 1964. On January 3, 1967...
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Somercotes Academy (redirect from Birkbeck School & Community Arts College)
Somercotes Academy (formerly Birkbeck School) is a mixed secondary school located in North Somercotes, near Louth in Lincolnshire, England. It draws its...
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the size of York Minster. The first recorded attempted descent was by John Birkbeck in 1842 who reached a ledge approximately 55 metres (180 ft) down the...
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Matt Birkbeck (born Brooklyn, N.Y.) is an American investigative journalist and author. He is best known for his books A Beautiful Child (2004), which...
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The Birkbeck Lectures in Ecclesiastical History have been held at Trinity College, Cambridge, since 1886. The source for the list below is: "Past Birkbeck...
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those three elements, over every other mountain region in the world." – John Ball (first president of the Alpine Club) The massif is the border between...
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Birkbeck Fells is a township located in part of the parishes of Crosby Ravensworth, Orton and Shap in the historic county of Westmorland. It is a large...
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This article is a list of people associated with Birkbeck, University of London, including alumni, members of faculty and fellows. Georgios Alogoskoufis...
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commemorated. It was translated into English from Russian by William John Birkbeck, an English theologian and musicologist who studied Russian church music...
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variously been known as Allan, Alan, Allen, Hellen and Hell'n. In 1847 John Birkbeck undertook the first partial descent of Alum Pot from Long Churn Cave...
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John Birkbeck Lubbock, 2nd Baron Avebury, DL (4 October 1858 – 26 March 1929), was a British aristocrat and banker. He was the eldest son of John Lubbock...
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Politics at Oxford University, 1938–9. During World War II, he was Master of Birkbeck College (1939–1943) and was also based at Reading Gaol, working for the...
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Bufalino, by Matt Birkbeck, has been erroneously reported that Sciandra was the brother-in-law of Russell Bufalino. References to John Sciandra as the brother...
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working for B. H. Howell & Co. of Manhattan and as president of the John Birkbeck Sugar Refining Company of South Brooklyn. On July 29, 1872, he played...
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Regulation of Vice, of which an influential English physician, Dr. John Birkbeck Nevins, of Liverpool, was president, Professor James Stuart, M. P.,...
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William Knox D'Arcy (redirect from Elena Birkbeck)
Birkbeck, a mining engineer from Illinois in the United States, who was in Mexico managing a silver mine. He was descended from the English Birkbecks...
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The North Eastern Railway: Its Rise and Development, A. Reid & Co. John Birkbeck Photos - Stainmore Railway— includes images of the Tees Viaduct 54°33′10″N...
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Morris Birkbeck Pell (31 March 1827 – 7 May 1879) was an American-Australian mathematician, professor, lawyer and actuary. He became the inaugural Professor...
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Medieval History at the University of Cambridge. He previously worked at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he specialised in the study of medieval...
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Custance, of Weston 1860: Henry Birkbeck, of Stoke Holy Cross 1861: John Thomas Mott, of Barningham 1862: Robert John Harvey Harvey, of Brundall 1863:...
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John S. Henderson is a professor of Italian Renaissance history at Birkbeck College, University of London. Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence...
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