Morris Birkbeck

(1764-1825)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Birkbeck, Morris, 1764-1825 DNB: Birkbeck, Morris (1764-1825), farmer and writer LBT ID: MoBirkb1825 VIAF ID: 19849972 LOC ID: n50009312	B/BAP: 1764-01-23 DIED: 1825-06-04
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Radical writer and friend of Robert Owen who in 1817 emigrated to the United States; the following year he published a widely popular book encouraging others to do the same.
REFERENCES TO Morris Birkbeck: John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 22 January 1818 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 4 Sydney Smith to Lord Grey, 30 November 1818 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 3 Terrot, Charles Hughes, 1790-1872, Common Sense: a Poem (Edinburgh: David Brown, 1819) Found 1: ¶ n1 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 1 January 1819 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXIV. 1818-1819 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1818 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXI. Found 1: ¶ 36 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter VI: 1818