Short answers, pulled from the story.
Birkbeck, University of London was founded on the 11th of November 1823 during a meeting at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand. Dr George Birkbeck chaired this founding meeting which established what would become the London Mechanics Institute.
Dr George Birkbeck served as the founder and first president of the institution that became Birkbeck, University of London. He fully devoted his efforts to the college despite critics who accused him of scattering seeds of evil.
Birkbeck, University of London moved to its present location in Malet Street in 1952. The Bloomsbury building now houses the School of Arts including the Department of English & Humanities in Virginia Woolf former residence at Gordon Square.
Birkbeck, University of London is one of the few universities to specialise in evening higher education in the United Kingdom. Nearly all classes on any one day are taught at the same time resulting in heavy competition for limited space due to its distinctive model focusing primarily on serving working adults through evening study.
The Royal Charter was granted to Birkbeck, University of London in 1926 after the outbreak of the First World War delayed a review that had recommended it become a constituent college of the University in 1913.