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| rdfs:comment | - George Offor (1787 - 7 August 1864) was a book-seller, literary editor and collector. He established himself as a book seller at Tower Hill specialising in sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature and theology, and amassed a large collection of bibles, psalters and testaments. A member of the Baptist Church, he was an admirer of John Bunyan, and wrote a life of Bunyan and edited a three-volume collection of his works. Member of the Fifth and final Commission (1854 - 1856) of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers. The Wikipedia page is [1]. Mention here [2]
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| abstract | - George Offor (1787 - 7 August 1864) was a book-seller, literary editor and collector. He established himself as a book seller at Tower Hill specialising in sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature and theology, and amassed a large collection of bibles, psalters and testaments. A member of the Baptist Church, he was an admirer of John Bunyan, and wrote a life of Bunyan and edited a three-volume collection of his works. Member of the Fifth and final Commission (1854 - 1856) of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers. Member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, Hackney District, 1855 - 1862. He died at his home in South Hackney aged 78, was buried at Abney Park Cemetery. The Wikipedia page is [1]. Mention here [2]
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