William Lloyd Birkbeck

William Lloyd Birkbeck QC (27 March 1806 – 25 May 1888) was an English legal scholar at the University of Cambridge, who served as Downing Professor of the Laws of England from 1860 and as Master of Downing College, Cambridge 1885–1888.

The son of George Birkbeck, the founder of the London Mechanics' Institute (now Birkbeck, University of London), William Lloyd Birkbeck was born in London, and educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated Michaelmas 1826, scholar 1828, graduated B.A.

Appointed to a Fellowship at Trinity and admitted to the Inner Temple in 1830, Birkbeck was called to the bar in 1833.

[3] He died on 25 May 1888, aged 82, at Downing College, Cambridge, and was buried in the family tomb at Kensal Green Cemetery.

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