George Offor [SEP] date of birth
George Offor
George Offor (1787– 7 August 1864) was an English book-collector who accumulated a massive personal library.
Offor entered business as a bookseller at Tower Hill, London. He studied Hebrew, Greek and Latin and became an expert in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and theological writings.
Works.
Works John Bunyan.
He had compiled the complete works of John Bunyan. However some of them got destroyed in a fire.
He spent his days reading, researching, recording,
has been claimed as 10 Aug 1874, however the date of 16 Sep 1866 is evidenced by his official birth record. He was educated to elementary level at Bourke, where his family moved after his father's alleged death when Stuart-Robertson was 4 years old. Despite the rumour that Robert senior had died during the 1870s in Queensland, Robert senior died on 3 July 1899 at George Street Asylum, Parramatta, New South Wales.
Stuart-Robertson undertook a number of unsuccessful retail businesses in Bourke and Cobar. During