Birkbeck

/ ˈbɜːkˌbɛk /

noun

1. 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