Bernard Crick Legacy supports Undergraduate Students

In addition to donating his papers to the Birkbeck archives, the Estate of the late Professor Bernard Crick made donations totalling £39,000 towards supporting undergraduate students at the College through the Student Opportunity Fund bursaries.

Professor Crick became the foundation professor of politics at Birkbeck College in 1971, setting up the school at number 10 Gower Street. He also sat and chaired a number of committees including the Political Studies Association, and Hansard Society. He was a political advisor in the Northern Ireland Constitutional convention 1974, and Chairman of the British-South Africa Conference. He was joint editor of the Political Quarterly from 1966-1980.  In 1997 he became chairman of the Advisory group on Education for Citizenship and the teaching of Democracy in Schools, and later advised the Labour government on devising the citizenship tests for immigrants to the UK. He was knighted in the 2002 New Year’s honours list for "services to citizenship in schools and to political studies".

Sir Bernard was married three times and had two sons from his first marriage to Joyce Morgan, a senior lecturer in German at University College.

He took early retirement in 1984 to live in Edinburgh, and died there in December 2008.

For more information of the Crick Archives:

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/about/crick

To discuss making a legacy to Birkbeck in your will please contact Kate Glennie: k.glennie@bbk.ac.uk or 020 7380 3106